CCR Annual Report 2007 - Center for Constitutional Rights
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<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Report</strong> <strong>2007</strong><br />
40th Anniversary
Our Mission<br />
The <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Constitutional</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> is dedicated to advancing and<br />
protecting the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and<br />
the Universal Declaration of Human <strong>Rights</strong>. Founded in 1966 by<br />
attorneys who represented civil rights movements in the South,<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> is a non-profit legal and educational organization committed to<br />
the creative use of law as a positive <strong>for</strong>ce <strong>for</strong> social change.
Table of Contents<br />
Letter from the President 2<br />
Letter from the Executive Director 3<br />
40 Years on the Frontlines <strong>for</strong> Social Justice 4<br />
Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative 8<br />
Rendition & Ghost Detentions 12<br />
Racial, Gender and Economic Justice 14<br />
Corporate Human <strong>Rights</strong> Abuse 16<br />
International Law and Accountability 18<br />
Prison Justice 20<br />
Attacks on Immigrants 22<br />
Surveillance & Material Support 24<br />
Attacks on Dissent 26<br />
Internships and Fellowships 28<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> in the News 30<br />
Youth Outreach 31<br />
40th Anniversary Celebration 32<br />
Case Index 34<br />
Friends & Allies 38<br />
Guantánamo Habeas Counsel 41<br />
Financial <strong>Report</strong> 45<br />
Our Donors 46<br />
Speaking Engagements 58<br />
Board of Directors and Staff 59<br />
In Memoriam 60<br />
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Letter from the President<br />
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are the times that try men’s [and women’s] souls.” Our democracy is in<br />
peril. <strong>Rights</strong> that we thought were fundamental, the prohibition on torture, disappearances<br />
and indefinite detention are considered dispensable. We are living in a<br />
“These<br />
plutocracy and under a government engaged in permanent war. There is no clear<br />
way ahead and certainly no assurance that a more just society is within reach or will be achieved.<br />
At times like this we must go back to our history and get strength from the struggles won and the<br />
words of one of our founders, Ben Smith. When the Vietnam War was raging, destroying countless<br />
lives and its ending appeared unachievable, he admonished us:<br />
“Do not despair! Revitalizing the Fourteenth Amendment looked as distant in 1959 and<br />
1960 as do the problems of the Vietnam peace movement today…. We shall prevail.”<br />
Yes, we shall prevail, and change is emerging, although more slowly then we desire. Almost six years after the first incarcerations<br />
at Guantánamo, we are again in front of the Supreme Court, and will hopefully restore the right of habeas corpus to<br />
the detainees and to all of us. Torture by our government continues, but the military, although not the CIA, has renounced its<br />
use. The unconscionable and illegal war in Iraq is our decade’s albatross; we will not be rid of it easily. The majority of the<br />
American people understand its horror; but they need to enter actively into ending it. So, we are not without hope because we<br />
understand that there is struggle.<br />
Recently, someone who obviously did not understand the <strong>Center</strong>, snidely remarked to me that we “lucked” into representing<br />
the Guantánamo detainees. Yes, I thought to myself, we lucked into those cases the same way we lucked into working<br />
early on in the Southern civil rights struggles, or the Chicago 8 case, or the Supreme Court challenge to denial of Medicaid<br />
<strong>for</strong> abortions, or in establishing that <strong>for</strong>eign torturers could be sued in the United States, or in closing down the Haitian HIV<br />
camp at Guantánamo, or in holding unconstitutional warrantless wiretapping in the 70’s or in challenging almost every war<br />
this country has engaged in.<br />
Of course, luck or accident had absolutely nothing to do with <strong>CCR</strong> engaging in the struggles, political issues and passions<br />
of its times. We have since our founding some 40 years ago demonstrated an unswerving commitment to progressive social<br />
change and the protections of fundamental rights that protect the dignity of every person. We have a vision of what this<br />
country and world should be; we are uncompromising and immovable in struggling <strong>for</strong> that vision. We understand the need<br />
to take political, legal and personal risks in our work— we did so when we represented Guantánamo detainees shortly after<br />
9/11. We did so in challenging the onerous prison telephone system and winning that struggle this year. We did do in representing<br />
Maher Arar who had been rendered to Syria <strong>for</strong> torture. And we will do so again and again.<br />
We understand that a better society is not and cannot be won only in the courts, particularly in the courts that have been<br />
foisted on this county over the last twenty-five years. Social movements and struggles in the streets are necessary to create<br />
a just society. The <strong>Center</strong> was born out of the belief that we could be partners with movements <strong>for</strong> social change. We still<br />
adhere to that belief.<br />
We thank all of you who recognize the important role <strong>CCR</strong> has played over the last 40 years and will continue to play in the<br />
many struggles ahead.<br />
Michael Ratner
must hear the voices and have the dreams of those who came<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e us, and we must keep them with us in a very real sense.<br />
This will keep us centered. This will help us to maintain our “We<br />
understanding of the job we must do.” – Sonia Sanchez<br />
The job we must do is clear one. The varied paths we will take to do that job are less so.<br />
History has repeatedly taught us that the hard-won victories of yesterday can never be taken<br />
<strong>for</strong> granted because the American memory is woefully short and right-wing ideology is<br />
durable. Moreover, as our society and administrations change, new threats to our rights arise,<br />
even as we defeat the old ones. Thus our “job” – <strong>CCR</strong>’s mission to advance and defend our<br />
constitutional and human rights – is unending.<br />
As we move into the future together, we must first start from where we are. We live in a<br />
United States that once condemned torture, military disappearances, indefinite detention, and military trials. Now, the<br />
United States vigorously fights us in the courts – and the courts of public opinion – to justify its use of those and many<br />
other illegal practices. We live in a United States where the government: has consolidated unprecedented power in the<br />
offices of the president and attorney general; refuses to protect its most vulnerable citizens from natural disasters and<br />
man-made ones created by its own agents; outsources its human rights violations to corporations, religious groups, paramilitary<br />
groups and even other countries; and continues to equate political activism and dissent with terrorism. This is<br />
not the United States that we will tolerate. Our history and our future demand more from us.<br />
True to our history and hearing the voices of those who have fought many of these same battles be<strong>for</strong>e us, <strong>CCR</strong><br />
and our brave allies will continue to fight in the courts, the streets and wherever and however the battle needs to be<br />
waged until we can all say that our fundamental constitutional and human rights are being respected and af<strong>for</strong>ded.<br />
And we will continue that fight without fear, <strong>for</strong> as Bayard Rustin once said, “to be afraid is to behave as if the truth<br />
were not true.”<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> will continue working with and defending progressive movements <strong>for</strong> social change. We will continue our long<br />
history of devising innovative strategies to undo the erosions of basic liberties and hold those who commit abuses<br />
accountable <strong>for</strong> their actions. Whatever the political landscape may be in the near future, we have decades of work<br />
ahead of us repairing the harm done to our people, our fundamental democratic systems, and our reputation as a nation<br />
which strives to respect human rights and the Rule of Law.<br />
We will continue to count on you to work with us as we move <strong>for</strong>ward with our work and tackle the upcoming<br />
challenges. Please take an opportunity to check out our re-vamped website to stay updated on the progress of our<br />
cases and to become more involved in our important education and outreach initiatives.<br />
Sincerely,<br />
Vincent Warren<br />
Letter from the Executive Director<br />
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40 Years on the Frontlines<br />
<strong>for</strong> Social Justice<br />
Since 1966 the <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong><br />
<strong>Constitutional</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> has used<br />
the law to defend and advance the<br />
rights guaranteed by the United<br />
States Constitution and the Universal<br />
Declaration of Human <strong>Rights</strong>. Our work<br />
began on behalf of civil rights activists,<br />
and over the last four decades <strong>CCR</strong> has<br />
lent its expertise and support to virtually<br />
every popular movement <strong>for</strong> social justice.<br />
At the bottom of this page begins a<br />
timeline describing some of the major<br />
cases that <strong>CCR</strong> has worked on over our<br />
40-year history. As you look through<br />
the decades, you will see an unwavering<br />
commitment to progressive principles,<br />
people’s movements and human rights.<br />
In many of these cases, <strong>CCR</strong> worked<br />
tenaciously <strong>for</strong> decades be<strong>for</strong>e success was<br />
achieved.<br />
Founded out of the Southern civil rights<br />
struggle, <strong>CCR</strong> was <strong>for</strong>med in order to<br />
practice law while working hand in<br />
1965<br />
Mississippi Challenge<br />
Challenged the seating of members of Congress<br />
who had won in racially discriminatory elections.<br />
Helped convince Congress to pass the Voting<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> Act.<br />
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hand with social justice movements. The<br />
<strong>Center</strong>’s first major case, Dombrowski v.<br />
Pfister (1965) successfully sued the Chair<br />
of the Louisiana Un-American Activities<br />
Committee, Representative Pfister, to<br />
invalidate the state anti-subversion laws<br />
that were being used in an attempt to<br />
intimidate civil rights organizer Jim<br />
Dombrowski, <strong>CCR</strong> founder Ben Smith and<br />
his law partner Bruce Waltzer.<br />
The Supreme Court victory in that case<br />
created an important new legal tool:<br />
the use of federal courts to invalidate<br />
unconstitutional state acts. <strong>CCR</strong> founders<br />
Arthur Kinoy, Ben Smith, Bill Kunstler<br />
and Morton Stavis developed pioneering<br />
legal strategies and used them to help<br />
strengthen the work of the civil rights<br />
movement.<br />
Racial Justice<br />
One important early struggle was the<br />
challenge to the seats of five Mississippi<br />
Congressmen by the Mississippi Freedom<br />
Democratic Party (MFDP). (Mississippi<br />
1965<br />
Dombrowski v. Pfister<br />
Won Supreme Court decision recognizing federal<br />
jurisdiction to stop states from using criminal law<br />
to intimidate civil rights workers. Established that<br />
such intimidation had a “chilling effect” on First<br />
Amendment rights and was unconstitutional.<br />
Challenge, 1965) At the request of MFDP,<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> founders initiated federal litigation<br />
challenging Mississippi’s discriminatory<br />
voter registration practices, resulting in<br />
the Court of Appeals setting the election<br />
aside and scheduling a new one. (Hamer<br />
v. Campbell, 1966) The victory in this<br />
case helped convince Congress to pass the<br />
Voting <strong>Rights</strong> Act.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> continued its deep commitment to<br />
addressing the legacy of slavery in the<br />
United States. In the late 1970’s, when<br />
the Ku Klux Klan began to rise up again,<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> worked with activists around the<br />
country and organized a national Anti-Klan<br />
Network. Our 1982 victory in Crumsey v.<br />
Justice Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was<br />
the first time that the Ku Klux Klan Act of<br />
1871 was utilized to obtain damages <strong>for</strong><br />
Klan victims. The case won over $500,000<br />
in damages and secured a sweeping<br />
injunction against the KKK and associated<br />
individuals, prohibiting their campaign of<br />
assault, intimidation and harassment.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> founder Morton Stavis at a Freedom<br />
Democratic Party Meeting in Alabama, 1966 James Dombrowski <strong>CCR</strong> founder Ben Smith<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> Case timeline listed by decision date<br />
1967<br />
Dombrowski v. Eastland<br />
Held members of Congress and<br />
their counsel responsible <strong>for</strong><br />
violations of civil rights.
Continuing in its tradition of Southern<br />
civil rights work, <strong>CCR</strong> opened an office<br />
in Greenville, Mississippi in 1984. <strong>CCR</strong><br />
South worked closely with activists to<br />
fight school segregation, workplace<br />
discrimination and a racist criminal justice<br />
system through litigation, education and<br />
organizing work.<br />
Women’s <strong>Rights</strong><br />
<strong>CCR</strong> filed its first major women’s rights<br />
case in l969, when women’s rights litigation<br />
was still largely uncharted territory.<br />
That case, Abramowicz v. Lefkowitz<br />
(1972), was the first challenge to New<br />
York’s criminal abortion law that focused<br />
on women’s rights as opposed to doctors’<br />
rights. It became the model <strong>for</strong> similar<br />
cases that invalidated abortion laws in<br />
other states, several of which were cited in<br />
Roe v. Wade when the Court decided that<br />
laws restricting the right to abortion are<br />
unconstitutional. These ground-breaking<br />
feminist theories were also cited in <strong>CCR</strong>’s<br />
amicus brief in Roe v. Wade. In 1988 our<br />
victory in NOW v. Terry created a precedent<br />
<strong>for</strong> establishing buffer zones around<br />
abortion clinics to protect women seeking<br />
medical services from being harassed by<br />
members of “Operation Rescue.”<br />
In 1975 <strong>CCR</strong> won the first ever appeal<br />
of a murder conviction based on what is<br />
now called “women’s self-defense law”.<br />
State of Washington v. Wanrow (1977)<br />
recognized the degree to which criminal<br />
law was shaped by male experience,<br />
ruling that the jury should consider the<br />
defendant’s personal experience, including<br />
a history of sex discrimination and abuse.<br />
1966<br />
Hamer v. Campbell<br />
Represented Fannie Lou Hamer in a lawsuit to<br />
overturn elections based on discriminatory voter<br />
registration practices.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong>’s challenge to the constitutionality<br />
of New York City’s <strong>for</strong>ced maternity leave<br />
policies <strong>for</strong> teachers, which effectively<br />
penalized women <strong>for</strong> bearing children,<br />
resulted in the landmark 1978 Supreme<br />
Court decision in Monell v. Department<br />
of Social Services, which created the right<br />
to sue municipalities <strong>for</strong> damages in civil<br />
rights cases.<br />
International Law<br />
& Accountability<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> has several major victories that have<br />
defined the scope of international law<br />
across the world. Filártiga v. Peña Irala<br />
(1980) was the breakthrough that led to the<br />
development of “universal jurisdiction”:<br />
the idea that some acts are so heinous<br />
that they travel with you anywhere in the<br />
world. <strong>CCR</strong> has extended this concept<br />
to create liability <strong>for</strong> human rights violations<br />
committed by corporations or other<br />
non-government entities, no matter where<br />
the violations occur. (See page 17 <strong>for</strong> a<br />
description of our Alien Tort Statue cases).<br />
The <strong>Center</strong> has also integrated its<br />
commitment to advancing women’s<br />
rights to international law, working<br />
vigilantly <strong>for</strong> over a decade towards<br />
the establishment of women’s rights as<br />
human rights, and specifically to highlight<br />
rape and other <strong>for</strong>ms of sexual violence<br />
as war crimes, crimes against humanity<br />
and genocide. The <strong>Center</strong>’s case Doe v.<br />
Karadzic (2000), in addition to establishing<br />
in a U.S. court that non-state actors can<br />
be liable <strong>for</strong> human rights violations and<br />
war crimes, also was the first time a U.S.<br />
court defined rape as a <strong>for</strong>m of torture.<br />
1968<br />
Hobson v. Hansen<br />
Led one of the first challenges to de facto school<br />
segregation. Resulted in a landmark decision<br />
holding the State responsible <strong>for</strong> affirmative duty<br />
to take corrective action ensuring equality in<br />
schools.<br />
Fannie Lou Hamer<br />
Doe v. Unocal (2004) was the first time<br />
a multinational corporation was charged<br />
with complicity in rape as torture.<br />
Attacks on Immigrants<br />
To fight discrimination against political<br />
refugees and to support the Sanctuary<br />
movement of the 1980’s, ABC v. Thornberg<br />
(1991) challenged the denial of<br />
asylum applications despite evidence<br />
of government sponsored persecutions<br />
and human rights violations, where the<br />
denials were based on U.S. support <strong>for</strong><br />
the repressive regimes of the immigrants’<br />
home countries.<br />
In 1987 <strong>CCR</strong> defended two activists<br />
who were in deportation proceedings <strong>for</strong><br />
exercising their First Amendment rights<br />
by organizing on behalf of a Palestinian<br />
group. After over twenty years of work,<br />
deportation proceedings were finally<br />
ended this year. (See page 23) This case<br />
is only one example of <strong>CCR</strong>’s long-term<br />
commitment to these issues and to our<br />
clients.<br />
1969<br />
DuVernay v. United States<br />
Challenged discrimination<br />
in the racial composition<br />
of draft boards.<br />
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40 Years on the Frontlines <strong>for</strong> Social Justice (continued)<br />
Attacks on Dissent<br />
Beginning with the historic 1965 march<br />
from Selma to Montgomery (Wright v.<br />
Montgomery, 1975), <strong>CCR</strong> attorneys have<br />
worked tirelessly to defend activists<br />
and organize legal support <strong>for</strong> political<br />
movements. Over the years, <strong>CCR</strong> has<br />
represented anti-war protestors (National<br />
Student Association v. Hershey, 1969;<br />
Soglin v. Kaufman, 1969; Jeanette<br />
Rankin Brigade v. Capitol Police, 1972),<br />
members of the Chicago 8 (U.S. v.<br />
Dellinger, 1972) and members of the<br />
American Indian Movement after a<br />
stand-off with the FBI at Wounded<br />
Knee (U.S. v. Banks and Means, 1974).<br />
In these cases and others, <strong>CCR</strong> employed<br />
innovative legal tactics that have served<br />
as the foundation <strong>for</strong> defense strategies<br />
in subsequent prosecutions of activists<br />
and protestors.<br />
1969<br />
National Student Association v. Hershey<br />
Protected First Amendment rights of anti-war<br />
protesters and successfully challenged, in the<br />
D.C. Circuit Court, the punitive induction of<br />
anti-war students into the armed services.<br />
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From its beginning, <strong>CCR</strong> has also been<br />
involved in challenges to the targeting of<br />
political activists. In 1969, we obtained<br />
a ruling allowing a witness subpoenaed<br />
by the House Un-American Activities<br />
Committee (HUAC) to challenge the<br />
constitutionality of the subpoena (Stamler<br />
v. Willis, 1970). Later, our grand jury cases<br />
defended against the use of the grand jury<br />
process to persecute those speaking out<br />
against government policies and protected<br />
the confidentiality of attorney-client<br />
conversations. (In re: Kinoy and In re:<br />
Rodberg, 1971) <strong>CCR</strong>’s innovative work<br />
in this area developed techniques that are<br />
still used to combat grand jury abuse.<br />
Illegal Government<br />
Surveillance<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> has a long history of fighting<br />
illegal domestic surveillance of unpopular<br />
groups. In U.S. v. U.S. District Court the<br />
Three of the clients in Crumsey on the day they filed their lawsuit<br />
1969<br />
Powell v. McCormack<br />
Fought in the Supreme Court to preserve<br />
voters’ choice of Adam Clayton Powell Jr. as<br />
their representative in Congress. Prevented<br />
Speaker of the House McCormack from unseating<br />
Rep. Powell.<br />
government wanted to bypass the courts<br />
to wiretap domestic activists in the name<br />
of national security. In 1972 <strong>CCR</strong> won<br />
this unanimous Supreme Court decision<br />
invalidating such wiretapping and declaring<br />
that domestic electronic surveillance<br />
without a warrant is unconstitutional. This<br />
decision rejected the government’s attempt<br />
to legitimize its use of the power of the executive<br />
branch to invade people’s privacy<br />
and monitor their political activity.<br />
Again in 1979, <strong>CCR</strong> successfully sued the<br />
FBI <strong>for</strong> illegal surveillance and break-ins.<br />
(Clavir v. U.S.) Building directly upon the<br />
work of our Movement Support Network<br />
campaigns and Freedom of In<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
Act requests, CISPES v. FBI (1985)<br />
exposed massive spying on activists in<br />
the El Salvador solidarity movement. In<br />
1986, Kinoy v. Mitchell uncovered over<br />
400 volumes of more than 200 instances<br />
of wiretapping, many involving Arthur<br />
Kinoy’s and <strong>CCR</strong>’s representation of<br />
“controversial” causes.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> founder Bill Kunstler (right) with<br />
his client, Judge Bruce Wright<br />
1969<br />
Soglin v. Kaufman<br />
Protected university students from<br />
expulsion <strong>for</strong> their lawful participation<br />
in anti-war activities.
The <strong>Center</strong> is again fighting this type of<br />
over-reaching by the executive branch with<br />
our case: <strong>CCR</strong> v. Bush. See page 24 <strong>for</strong> a<br />
description of this case and our ongoing<br />
work to end warrantless surveillance and<br />
the targeting of organizations based on<br />
political affiliation.<br />
Executive Detentions<br />
In November 2001, President Bush issued<br />
“Military Order Number One” claiming<br />
that he could capture, arrest or kidnap and<br />
then hold <strong>for</strong>ever, without trial and without<br />
the right to challenge their detention in<br />
court, any non-citizen that he declared was<br />
a “terrorist.” <strong>CCR</strong> immediately understood<br />
the threat to our democracy that such<br />
claims of unfettered executive power represent.<br />
We understood in part because of<br />
our long history of taking on these issues<br />
and sticking with the cases and our clients,<br />
even when doing so is unpopular.<br />
The habeas petition that led to <strong>CCR</strong>’s<br />
2004 Supreme Court decision in Rasul v.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> founder Arthur Kinoy being<br />
removed from a HUAC hearing by<br />
federal marshalls, 1966<br />
1970<br />
Stamler v. Willis<br />
Challenged the constitutionality of the<br />
House Un-American Activities Committee.<br />
Obtained a ruling in federal<br />
court that allowed those served with<br />
subpoenas from HUAC to challenge<br />
them on constitutional grounds.<br />
Bush was filed within weeks of the first<br />
detainees arriving at Guantánamo Bay<br />
Naval Station in Cuba. This important<br />
precedent, that opened the door to U.S.<br />
courts <strong>for</strong> the detainees, was possible<br />
because <strong>CCR</strong> was able to recognize the<br />
Bush administration’s actions <strong>for</strong> what they<br />
were, and was unafraid to step up to the<br />
challenge in defense of the fundamental<br />
principle of fairness and against secrecy.<br />
Looking Forward–<br />
Repairing the Damage<br />
Since our founding, we have provided legal<br />
skills in a unique and effective manner<br />
and always with a progressive perspective.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> is often “ahead of the curve” both<br />
in identifying problems and in suggesting<br />
novel or radical legal responses. We<br />
use daring and innovative legal strategies<br />
which have produced many important<br />
precedents that have become an estab-<br />
Selma to Montgomery march across the<br />
Edmond Pettus bridge, Alabama 1965<br />
1971<br />
Grand Jury Cases<br />
Defended the rights of witnesses against<br />
grand jury abuse; protected the confidentiality<br />
of attorney-client conversations (In re:<br />
Kinoy) and defended congressional aide from<br />
being jailed <strong>for</strong> contempt in the “Pentagon<br />
Papers Grand Jury” case (In re: Rodberg).<br />
lished part of our law and legal culture,<br />
and we broaden the impact of our litigation<br />
through creative and effective education<br />
and advocacy work. Our stunning victories<br />
in many of these cases demonstrate the true<br />
value of the <strong>Center</strong>.<br />
The descriptions of our work over the<br />
past year that are contained in this report<br />
demonstrate the tremendous impact of<br />
combining the unique political perspective<br />
and historical understanding of the <strong>Center</strong>,<br />
with the courage and tenacity to take up<br />
the most difficult challenges and to keep<br />
up the struggle over the long haul. That is<br />
exactly the <strong>for</strong>mula we will need in order<br />
to face the challenges ahead and begin the<br />
work of repairing the damage done to our<br />
legal system over the past ten years. n<br />
1971<br />
Wright v. Montgomery<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> attorneys defended numerous<br />
participants and organized legal support<br />
<strong>for</strong> marchers who were arrested and harassed<br />
in connection with the historic Selma-to-<br />
Montgomery March in 1965.<br />
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1971<br />
Palmer v. Thompson<br />
Fought racial segregation in public swimming pools.<br />
Argued that the State should act affirmatively to end<br />
racial discrimination; lost in the Supreme Court. Public<br />
swimming pools were allowed to close rather than<br />
integrate.<br />
1972<br />
Jeanette Rankin Brigade v. Capitol Police<br />
Protected anti-war demonstrators’ right to demonstrate on<br />
Capitol Hill and struck down a statute that prohibited demonstrating,<br />
walking, or standing in groups on Capitol grounds.
Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative<br />
Over five years ago, on January 11, 2002, the first<br />
prisoners were brought from Afghanistan to<br />
Guantánamo Bay Naval Station in Cuba. They<br />
were quickly labeled as terrorists and the “worst of<br />
the worst,” with no access to the courts to determine their legal<br />
rights. One month after these first twenty men arrived, the <strong>Center</strong><br />
<strong>for</strong> <strong>Constitutional</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> filed the first case on behalf of detainees<br />
at Guantánamo, seeking a habeas corpus hearing in which the<br />
legitimacy of their detention would be reviewed by an impartial<br />
federal judge.<br />
Since that time, we have learned that the vast majority of these<br />
men are innocent of any crimes against the United States and have<br />
been brutally tortured and abused, both physically and psychologically.<br />
We have seen Guantánamo become an international<br />
symbol of lawlessness and U.S. arrogance abroad, condemned<br />
by international human rights organizations, the United Nations<br />
and leaders of countries including Germany and England. And<br />
yet Guantánamo is still open and housing, at last count, approximately<br />
340 detainees.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> continues to train and coordinate the ef<strong>for</strong>ts of over 500<br />
pro bono attorneys who represent Guantánamo detainees. We<br />
are deeply committed to ensuring that the detainees are either<br />
charged and given fair trials or released; that safe countries are<br />
found <strong>for</strong> those slated <strong>for</strong> release to countries where they are<br />
likely to face torture and continued detention; and that the prison<br />
camp be shut down.<br />
In the Courts<br />
Three years after our historic Supreme Court victory in Rasul v.<br />
Bush and just months after Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, each of which<br />
affirmed the detainees’ right of access to the federal courts, President<br />
Bush signed into law the Military Commissions Act of 2006<br />
(MCA). The MCA, among other provisions, attempts to strip<br />
detainees of their right to habeas corpus; drastically broadens the<br />
definition of “enemy combatant”; and allows the use of evidence<br />
obtained under torture and coercion in some instances. The Act<br />
has had the effect of stalling all pending detainee habeas cases,<br />
1972<br />
Abramowicz v. Lefkowitz<br />
Challenged New York State law that restricted abortion; served as<br />
a model <strong>for</strong> lawsuits throughout the country challenging restrictive<br />
abortion laws. Ultimately, New York’s law was changed through<br />
legislation while statutes in Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jersey<br />
and other states were directly struck down through litigation.<br />
with judges ruling that until the question of how the MCA applies<br />
is addressed, these cases cannot move <strong>for</strong>ward.<br />
Two cases became the first to challenge the constitutionality<br />
of the MCA. Al Odah v. United States, filed jointly by <strong>CCR</strong><br />
and co-counsel law firms, consists of eleven habeas petitions<br />
including many of the first ones filed after the Supreme Court’s<br />
Rasul decision. Boumediene v. Bush was filed on behalf of six<br />
Bosnian-Algerian humanitarian workers seized by the U.S.<br />
military in Sarajevo and transferred to Guantánamo.<br />
In April, the Supreme Court declined to review these cases.<br />
However, in a highly unusual move, the Court reversed itself and<br />
announced in June that it would in fact hear them in the coming<br />
court term. <strong>CCR</strong> will be be<strong>for</strong>e the Supreme Court <strong>for</strong> the second<br />
time on behalf of the detainees.<br />
In Congress<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> was engaged in extensive legislative ef<strong>for</strong>ts to prevent<br />
the MCA’s passage and is currently working to repeal the worst<br />
aspects of it, and to reinstate habeas corpus <strong>for</strong> the detainees.<br />
Aided by growing disenchantment with the Administration,<br />
members of Congress on both sides of the aisle introduced<br />
several pieces of legislation this year that would have given<br />
detainees meaningful access to the courts. <strong>CCR</strong> worked with<br />
other organizations to push <strong>for</strong> the passage of the Habeas Corpus<br />
Restoration Act and the more comprehensive Restoring the<br />
Constitution Act. We continue our legislative advocacy and<br />
are hopeful that, coupled with our legal work, we will bring<br />
about the twin goals of safely closing Guantánamo and ensuring<br />
that everyone detained there has their day in court.<br />
Detainee Transfers<br />
In October 2006, we filed a habeas petition on behalf of Majid<br />
Khan, one of the “ghost detainees” held in secret CIA detention,<br />
who President Bush had transferred to Guantánamo in September<br />
2006. Majid is a U.S. resident who was granted asylum here and<br />
attended high school in Baltimore, Maryland. He was kidnapped<br />
along with his brother, his brother’s wife and their infant child,<br />
1972<br />
U.S. v. U.S. District Court<br />
Won a unanimous U.S.<br />
Supreme Court decision invalidating<br />
warrantless “national<br />
security” wiretapping against<br />
domestic activists.<br />
1972<br />
United States v. Dellinger<br />
Defended charges against<br />
the “Chicago 8” and won<br />
reversal of the conviction on<br />
appeal.<br />
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1972<br />
U.S. ex rel. Goodman v. Kehl<br />
Protected WBAI against a<br />
subpoena <strong>for</strong> tapes based on<br />
reporter’s privilege and due<br />
process.<br />
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1973<br />
In re: WBAI v. FM<br />
Defended WBAI against<br />
grand jury subpoena <strong>for</strong><br />
a note received from the<br />
Weather Underground.<br />
1973<br />
Hess v. Schlesinger<br />
Defended women’s autonomy<br />
within marriage. Struck down a<br />
Marine Corps rule which in effect<br />
treated women merely as extensions<br />
of their husbands.<br />
Demonstration outside the Supreme Court on<br />
January 11, <strong>2007</strong> marking the fifth anniversary of the<br />
arrival of the first detainees at Guantánamo Bay<br />
1974<br />
Aikens v. Abel<br />
Represented steelworkers against<br />
their union leadership and management<br />
when an “Experimental<br />
Negotiating Agreement” was signed,<br />
that prohibited the rank-and-file from<br />
striking.
Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative<br />
from their residence during a visit to Pakistan in March 2003. His<br />
relatives were eventually released, but Majid was not heard from<br />
again <strong>for</strong> more than three years until a news reporter knocked on<br />
his family’s door in Baltimore and told them President Bush had<br />
announced in a nationally-televised speech that Majid was one<br />
of 14 “high-value” detainees who had been transferred to<br />
Guantánamo.<br />
The government claims that the secret detention program and<br />
the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used on Majid are top<br />
secret and are using this as the basis to deny <strong>CCR</strong> attorneys access<br />
to him. As <strong>CCR</strong> attorneys fought with the government to gain<br />
access to Majid, his interrogations continued. In May <strong>2007</strong>, the<br />
U.S. government released his Combatant Status Review Tribunal<br />
(CSRT) transcript. The transcript was a revelation – it showed that<br />
no reliable evidence was presented against him during his CSRT<br />
hearing and that government-produced witnesses refuted all the<br />
claims that Majid had links to terrorism. All of Majid’s statements<br />
describing his torture while held in CIA secret prisons and at<br />
Guantánamo were completely redacted. We continue to press the<br />
U.S. government to give us access to Majid.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> also fought the government’s attempts to send our client<br />
Abdul Ra’ouf al Qassim to Libya, where he feared facing torture.<br />
Every court up to and including the Supreme Court denied our<br />
attempts to block the transfer, but the ensuing publicity convinced<br />
the government to remove him from the list of detainees<br />
scheduled <strong>for</strong> transfer, and <strong>CCR</strong> is working through a variety of<br />
channels to have him sent to a safe third country where his wife<br />
and child live.<br />
On the Base<br />
Conditions at Guantánamo have evolved from medieval-style<br />
brutality to subtle but more insidious <strong>for</strong>ms of psychological<br />
torment. While the previous years have been marked by shocking<br />
stories of brutal torture – severe beatings, sexual humiliation,<br />
and short-shackling – the abuse is now directed at the mind rather<br />
than the body. A large number of detainees are now held in Camps<br />
5 and 6, two maximum-security solitary confinement prisons<br />
1974<br />
Kentucky Bar Association v. Taylor; Taylor v. Hayes<br />
Protected the independence of the Bar. Defended Louisville<br />
attorney Dan Taylor, who was held in contempt during a<br />
criminal trial, denied a lawyer and a hearing, not told the<br />
charges against him and thrown in jail without bail.<br />
explicitly modeled after domestic Supermax prisons of the sort<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> challenged in Wilkinson v. Austin (2004). Detainees first<br />
began to be moved to Camp 6 in December 2006; shortly afterwards,<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> attorneys who visited Guantánamo began reporting<br />
rapid physical and psychological deterioration of our clients due<br />
to their protracted isolation from human contact.<br />
Prolonged solitary confinement is an extreme <strong>for</strong>m of abuse<br />
that has been condemned by many international bodies. Detainees<br />
in Camps 5 and 6 are alone in their cells <strong>for</strong> at least 22 hours of<br />
each day, have no social contact with other inmates and little<br />
communication with the outside world or even with prison staff.<br />
The psychological torture of isolation, while less likely to scandalize<br />
the public than Abu Ghraib-style physical and sexual abuse,<br />
leaves longer-lasting scars and is harder to cure, and bringing it<br />
to the attention of the public and the courts is a major goal <strong>for</strong> the<br />
coming months.<br />
Fifth Anniversary<br />
January 11, <strong>2007</strong> was the fifth anniversary of Guantánamo’s use<br />
as an off-shore prison. <strong>CCR</strong> marked this sad date by coordinating,<br />
along with numerous other organizations, an international day of<br />
protests that called <strong>for</strong> the safe closure of the prison camp and access<br />
to courts <strong>for</strong> the detainees. Throughout the year, we planned<br />
events, provided speakers, traveled to Cuba with activist groups<br />
such as Code Pink, sent out numerous action alerts and organized<br />
“Restore Habeas Corpus Day,” with the goal of increasing public<br />
pressure on the U.S. government to finally close Guantánamo and<br />
end this administration’s extrajudicial detention program. Our anniversary<br />
report, Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: Guantánamo<br />
Bay Five Years Later, is available on our website.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> continues to be at the <strong>for</strong>efront of the battle <strong>for</strong> justice <strong>for</strong><br />
Guantánamo detainees. With the support of our allies and donors,<br />
we will continue to work on many fronts until we achieve our<br />
goals of ensuring that detainees have their day in court, that those<br />
who are released are repatriated safely, and ultimately closing<br />
Guantánamo Bay and ending the use of off-shore prisons outside<br />
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1974<br />
U.S. v. Banks and Means<br />
Defended American Indian sovereignty at Wounded Knee; represented leaders<br />
in the American Indian Movement charged with conspiracy and assault in<br />
a standoff with the FBI. All charges were dropped against defendants while<br />
the trial revealed massive illegal spying by the government, suppression of<br />
evidence and illegal use of material supplied by the Pentagon.<br />
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1975<br />
Douglas v. Holloman<br />
Banned <strong>for</strong>ced sterilization and drafted guidelines<br />
to ensure that women had adequate and<br />
full in<strong>for</strong>mation, in comprehensible language,<br />
about the effects of sterilization.<br />
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1975<br />
Drinan v. Ford<br />
Attempted to halt U.S. attacks on Cambodia<br />
through a challenge to presidential assertion of<br />
unilateral right to expand the war in Southeast<br />
Asia without congressional authorization.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> client Maher Arar and<br />
his wife Monia Mazigh<br />
1975<br />
In re: Union Nacional de<br />
Trabajadores<br />
Defended UNT’s right to a legally<br />
constituted trial by jury.
Extraordinary Rendition<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> was the first organization to challenge an<br />
“extraordinary rendition,” in which terror suspects are<br />
secretly transferred from U.S. custody to the custody<br />
of notorious human rights-abusing regimes in order<br />
to have those countries do what the law <strong>for</strong>bids – torture the<br />
suspects to extract in<strong>for</strong>mation. In 2004, we filed a case on behalf<br />
of Canadian citizen Maher Arar against then-Attorney General<br />
John Ashcroft and other U.S. officials. Mr. Arar was detained at<br />
John F. Kennedy Airport in September 2002 and falsely labeled<br />
a member of al Qaeda. After nearly two weeks of intensive interrogation,<br />
he was sent to Syria where he was kept underground in a<br />
dark 3 x 6 x 7 foot cell <strong>for</strong> over ten months and beaten with electric<br />
cables. He was released and returned to Canada a year later.<br />
This past year has seen an incredible wave of public sentiment in<br />
Mr. Arar’s favor. In September 2006, the Canadian Commission<br />
of Inquiry, established by the Canadian government to investigate<br />
what happened to Mr. Arar, released a report that exonerated<br />
him and showed that the in<strong>for</strong>mation Canada passed to the U.S.<br />
be<strong>for</strong>e he was detained was inaccurate and inflammatory. In January<br />
<strong>2007</strong>, Canada <strong>for</strong>mally apologized <strong>for</strong> its role in Mr. Arar’s<br />
treatment and awarded him a settlement of approximately $10<br />
million. In May <strong>2007</strong>, Time Magazine recognized Maher Arar as<br />
one of its Time 100, a “list of 100 men and women whose power,<br />
talent, or moral example is trans<strong>for</strong>ming our world.”<br />
In December 2006, <strong>CCR</strong> appealed the dismissal of our case,<br />
Arar v. Ashcroft, which was dismissed on national security and<br />
<strong>for</strong>eign policy grounds. Briefing in the Second Circuit was completed<br />
in April <strong>2007</strong>, and Mr. Arar awaits his case being heard.<br />
CIA Ghost Detentions<br />
As more details come to light about the CIA secret prisons and<br />
black sites that were, and likely continue to be, used to house<br />
prisoners in the so-called “war on terror,” <strong>CCR</strong> continues to<br />
Rendition & Ghost Detentions<br />
1975<br />
Joanne Little Case<br />
Assisted in the defense of Joanne Little, a prisoner who had killed<br />
her white jailer after he had tried to rape her, by documenting<br />
overwhelming racial prejudice on the part of the jury in her case.<br />
Ultimately, Little was acquitted.<br />
vigorously challenge those unlawful detentions and press the<br />
government <strong>for</strong> full disclosure.<br />
In June <strong>2007</strong>, <strong>CCR</strong> and five other leading human rights organizations<br />
released a report that published the names and details of 39<br />
people who are believed to have been held in secret U.S. custody<br />
and whose current whereabouts remain unknown. The report,<br />
Off the Record: U.S. Responsibility <strong>for</strong> En<strong>for</strong>ced Disappearance<br />
in the “War on Terror,” includes people from African, Middle<br />
Eastern, and European countries and highlights aspects of the<br />
CIA detention program that the U.S. government has actively<br />
tried to conceal, such as the locations of secret prisons, the<br />
mistreatment detainees endured, and the countries to which they<br />
may have been transferred. It constitutes the most comprehensive<br />
list of people who may still be detained in U.S. secret prisons.<br />
At the same time, <strong>CCR</strong>, along with Amnesty International and the<br />
International Human <strong>Rights</strong> Clinic of NYU Law School, filed a<br />
Freedom of In<strong>for</strong>mation Act lawsuit seeking in<strong>for</strong>mation about<br />
“disappeared” detainees, including ghost detainees and unregistered<br />
prisoners. Our 2004 lawsuit, ACLU, <strong>CCR</strong>, et al. v. DOD et<br />
al., seeks records concerning the abuse of detainees in American<br />
detention centers and charges the Department of Defense and<br />
other agencies with illegally withholding records.<br />
Some of our clients currently detained at Guantánamo were<br />
victims of ghost detention and rendition prior to arriving at<br />
the base. A recent Executive Order was established as authorization<br />
<strong>for</strong> the program to continue after what was described as a<br />
temporary hiatus in response to the Supreme Court’s decision<br />
in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, which held in part that detainees held<br />
in U.S. custody anywhere in the world could not be subjected to<br />
cruel and inhumane treatment.<br />
There is no way to know how widespread these practices<br />
currently are, but <strong>CCR</strong> is committed to shining a light on<br />
these clandestine abuses and ending the govern ment’s practice<br />
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1975<br />
State of New York v. Danny White<br />
Fought New York State’s attempts to evict Mohawk<br />
Indians from their land and challenged the jurisdiction<br />
of U.S. courts over American Indian land claims.<br />
Resulted in a settlement with the State.<br />
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1976<br />
Andrews v. Drew Municipal<br />
School District (amicus)<br />
Protected the right of unwed<br />
mothers to teach in schools.<br />
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1976<br />
NLRB v. Union Nacional de Trabajadores<br />
Defended independentista union from<br />
NLRB en<strong>for</strong>cement orders.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> Executive Director Vincent Warren with our<br />
FDNY clients, members of the Vulcan Society<br />
1977<br />
State of Washington v. Wanrow<br />
Representing Yvonne Wanrow, <strong>CCR</strong> won the first<br />
ever appeal of a murder conviction on the grounds<br />
of a woman’s right to self-defense against harm to<br />
self or child.
Racial, Gender and Economic Justice<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> was born out of the civil rights movement of the<br />
1960’s and remains dedicated to fighting racism in all<br />
its <strong>for</strong>ms. Since our founding, we have broadened our<br />
work to include gender rights and economic justice as<br />
well as continuing the struggle <strong>for</strong> racial justice.<br />
Our new Government Misconduct attorney, Andrea Costello, has<br />
brought with her an exciting case representing several feminist<br />
activists from the “Morning-After Pill Conspiracy.” Tummino, et<br />
al. v. Von Eschenbach challenges the Federal Drug Administration’s<br />
failure to approve the Morning-After Pill (also known as<br />
“emergency contraception” or “Plan B”) as an over-the-counter<br />
medication <strong>for</strong> women of all ages. This case is part of the MAP<br />
Conspiracy organizing campaign, which is exposing how the<br />
FDA’s decision-making process was prejudiced by anti-birth<br />
control sentiments within the government. Motions <strong>for</strong> summary<br />
judgment from both sides are pending.<br />
We continue to work with a teachers group – Committee <strong>for</strong> a<br />
Fair Licensing Procedure – to win a class action lawsuit on behalf<br />
of public school teachers of color who have challenged the use<br />
of discriminatory tests that have deprived them of equal salaries,<br />
pensions, benefits and seniority while still keeping them in<br />
the classroom. The <strong>Center</strong> argues that the Board of Education’s<br />
reliance on the National Teachers Examination to terminate the<br />
licenses of experienced teachers is discriminatory because the<br />
test has an adverse disparate impact on people of color, especially<br />
Black and Latino teachers. In August 2006, the Second Circuit<br />
Court of Appeals agreed with <strong>CCR</strong> and sent the case, Gulino v.<br />
Board of Education, back to the lower court to be reconsidered.<br />
Another key <strong>CCR</strong> case also focuses on discriminatory testing:<br />
Vulcan Society v. City of New York. For years we have partnered<br />
with the Vulcan Society, the organization of Black firefighters in<br />
New York City, to challenge racial discrimination in recruitment<br />
and the entrance exam that determines who will be hired. New<br />
York has the least racially diverse fire department of any major<br />
city in the United States—2.9 percent black in a city that is 27<br />
percent Black. <strong>CCR</strong> filed two Equal Employment Opportunity<br />
Commission (EEOC) charges that resulted in rulings that the test<br />
1977<br />
Horman v. Kissinger<br />
Exposed U.S. involvement in a coup by the Chilean junta in a<br />
lawsuit against U.S. officials present during the overthrow of<br />
Salvador Allende’s government in 1973; asserted their involvement<br />
in the disappearance, torture and murder of Charles<br />
Horman, who observed U.S. naval support <strong>for</strong> the coup.<br />
was discriminatory. After the FDNY ignored repeated invitations<br />
to negotiate a solution, the U.S. Department of Justice reviewed<br />
the matter and decided to file a lawsuit against the city in May<br />
<strong>2007</strong>, charging that the test weeds out Black and Latino applicants<br />
and has no relationship to job skills. <strong>CCR</strong> has now <strong>for</strong>mally<br />
intervened in the DOJ suit and will continue our ef<strong>for</strong>ts to put an<br />
end to the racial disparities within the FDNY and create equal access<br />
to employment <strong>for</strong> more people of color in New York City.<br />
There was also significant movement in our landmark case<br />
Daniels v. City of New York that challenged the racial profiling<br />
practices of the New York City Police Department and led to the<br />
shuttering of the Street Crimes Unit. The SCU was a commando<br />
unit of over 300 police officers that patrolled the streets at night<br />
in unmarked cars and in plain clothes. It was four SCU officers<br />
who killed Amadou Diallo by firing 41 bullets at him as he was<br />
standing in the vestibule of his apartment building in 1999.<br />
Shortly after this horrific shooting, NYPD statistics revealed that<br />
the SCU routinely invades the privacy of tens of thousands of city<br />
residents, especially young men of color.<br />
The SCU was disbanded following a settlement in December<br />
2003 and <strong>CCR</strong> has continued to monitor compliance and engage<br />
in en<strong>for</strong>cement of the agreement, which includes safeguards<br />
against unlawful racial profiling. However, the recent dramatic<br />
increase in stop-and-frisks shows that the NYPD is once again in<br />
violation of the new policy. We will continue our ef<strong>for</strong>ts to end<br />
racial profiling by the NYPD. n<br />
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30 Years of Monell<br />
In the 30 years since <strong>CCR</strong> won this landmark case,<br />
Monell claims have become a powerful tool <strong>for</strong> holding<br />
municipalities responsible <strong>for</strong> civil rights violations. Initiated<br />
as a women’s rights case, these claims are now most<br />
often used to challenge patterns of police misconduct,<br />
such as <strong>CCR</strong>’s Street Crimes Unit case described above.<br />
Monell is an example of how <strong>CCR</strong>’s pioneering ef<strong>for</strong>ts to<br />
apply creative legal strategies to the struggle <strong>for</strong> social and<br />
economic justice opens doors and carves out whole new<br />
avenues <strong>for</strong> progressive lawyers and community activists to<br />
pursue into the future.<br />
1978<br />
Monell v. Department of Social Services<br />
Originating as a successful challenge to <strong>for</strong>ced<br />
maternity leave policies, this case <strong>for</strong>ced local<br />
government accountability <strong>for</strong> unconstitutional acts<br />
<strong>for</strong> the first time and created the right to obtain<br />
damages from municipalities in such cases.<br />
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Some of the most exciting and innovative litigation in<br />
<strong>CCR</strong>’s docket are our cases that challenge human rights<br />
abuses committed by multinational corporations. With<br />
issues that range from the horrifying torture and abuse<br />
at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, to illegal home demolitions in the<br />
Palestinian Territories, to the murder of activists in Nigeria, these<br />
cases seek to bring accountability <strong>for</strong> human rights violations into<br />
the board rooms of major corporations.<br />
In 1996, <strong>CCR</strong> filed a lawsuit against Royal Dutch Shell <strong>for</strong> its<br />
role in environmental degradation and human rights violations in<br />
the Ogoni region of Nigeria. At the center of the case is the 1995<br />
executions of the Ogoni 9, peaceful activists led by Ken Saro-<br />
Wiwa. <strong>CCR</strong> contends that the oil company colluded with<br />
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1979<br />
Clavir v. U.S.<br />
Filed suit on behalf of political activists<br />
against the FBI <strong>for</strong> illegal surveillance and<br />
surreptitious break-ins of their home.<br />
Nigeria's military government to bring about the arrest and<br />
execution of the Ogoni 9 by giving money and weapons to the<br />
Nigerian government to crush the protest movement and by<br />
bribing witnesses to give false testimony. <strong>CCR</strong> fought off<br />
multiple motions to dismiss and the case has now progressed to<br />
discovery. <strong>CCR</strong> filed amicus briefs in the appeal on a related case<br />
pending be<strong>for</strong>e the Second Circuit Court of Appeals on the issues<br />
of substantive norms as well as secondary liability.<br />
In a related case, <strong>CCR</strong> is working with a team of human rights<br />
organizations and public interest law firms on Bowoto v. Chevron,<br />
an ATS case charging Chevron with involvement in three attacks<br />
on unarmed environmental protesters and people in their homes<br />
in Nigeria in 1998 and 1999. Important rulings in August <strong>2007</strong> on<br />
1979<br />
Bruno v. Codd<br />
Compelled the NYPD to respond<br />
to domestic violence.<br />
1979<br />
U.S. v. Berkan<br />
Won criminal case on behalf of Judy<br />
Berkan, lawyer <strong>for</strong> protestors of the U.S.<br />
Navy bombing of Vieques, Puerto Rico.
1980<br />
Local 1330, U.S. Steelworkers of<br />
America v. U.S. Steel (amicus)<br />
Fought to keep steel plants open in<br />
Youngstown, Ohio.<br />
Corporate Human <strong>Rights</strong> Abuse<br />
Chevron’s summary judgment motions allowed the case to move<br />
<strong>for</strong>ward to trial.<br />
In June 2004, just weeks after the photographs of abuse and<br />
sexual humiliation at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq were made<br />
public, <strong>CCR</strong> filed a lawsuit against Titan Corporation and CACI<br />
International, charging both with torture and other human rights<br />
abuses. CACI and Titan are publicly traded corporations that<br />
provide interrogation and translation services to U.S. government<br />
agencies. The suit charges that employees of these companies<br />
directed or participated in illegal interrogation tactics, including:<br />
<strong>for</strong>ced nakedness; hooding; being <strong>for</strong>ced to watch family members<br />
be tortured to death; severe beatings with chains, boots, and<br />
other objects; and rape.<br />
Motions filed by the corporations <strong>for</strong> summary judgment, and<br />
<strong>CCR</strong>’s response, are pending be<strong>for</strong>e the court.<br />
In 2005, <strong>CCR</strong> filed suit against Caterpillar, Inc., alleging that it<br />
sold D9 bulldozers to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) knowing<br />
that they would be used to unlawfully demolish homes and<br />
endanger civilians. <strong>CCR</strong> represents four Palestinian families<br />
whose family members were killed or injured when the<br />
bulldozers were used to demolish their homes while they were<br />
inside, and the parents of American activist Rachel Corrie,<br />
who was killed by a D9 bulldozer while protecting a Palestinian<br />
family’s home from demolition. In July <strong>2007</strong>, <strong>CCR</strong> argued Corrie<br />
v. Caterpillar be<strong>for</strong>e the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> also continues to support the work of other organizations<br />
and individuals who are fighting corporate human rights abuses.<br />
For almost 40 years, Vietnamese civilians and U.S. veterans<br />
have suffered from the severe health effects of being sprayed<br />
with Agent Orange and from it remaining in the soil and natural<br />
environment of Vietnam. In June <strong>2007</strong>, a lawsuit initiated by the<br />
Vietnam Association <strong>for</strong> Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxin was<br />
argued be<strong>for</strong>e the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals. <strong>CCR</strong><br />
filed an amicus brief in the case when it was be<strong>for</strong>e the District<br />
Court, helped organize a Day of Action around the<br />
country and coordinated protest activities outside the court<br />
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Alien Tort Statute<br />
It has been over 25 years since <strong>CCR</strong> pioneered the use of<br />
the Alien Tort Statute (ATS) to allow <strong>for</strong>eign victims of human<br />
rights abuses to seek remedies in U.S. courts. Since our<br />
groundbreaking victory in Filártiga, <strong>CCR</strong> has successfully<br />
expanded the application of the ATS, also known as the<br />
Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA), to cases involving human rights<br />
violations by multinational corporations.<br />
In 1994 <strong>CCR</strong> filed Doe v. Karadzic against Bosnian Serb<br />
leader Radovan Karadzic. A 1995 decision in that case laid<br />
the groundwork <strong>for</strong> ATS cases against non-state actors, by<br />
establishing <strong>for</strong> the first time that individuals not working<br />
<strong>for</strong> any government can be liable under human rights law.<br />
The case concluded in 2000 with an historic $4.5 billion<br />
judgment against Karadzic <strong>for</strong> genocide, war crimes and<br />
crimes against humanity.<br />
In 1996 we brought an ATS case against the Unocal oil<br />
corporation, alleging that it was aware of and supported<br />
slave labor, murder, rape and <strong>for</strong>ced displacement of<br />
thousands of villagers during the construction of a gas<br />
pipeline in Burma. A 1997 decision in Doe v. Unocal, relying<br />
heavily on our 1995 victory in Karadzic, established that<br />
multinational corporations may be liable <strong>for</strong> human rights<br />
violations when they are complicit in abuses committed by<br />
partner states. The parties reached a settlement in 2004.<br />
A humanitarian fund resulting from the settlement will be<br />
launched in September <strong>2007</strong>.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> continues to use its expertise in this area of law to<br />
expand the use of the Alien Tort Statute. We maintain a<br />
listserv <strong>for</strong> attorneys litigating these cases and organize<br />
Continuing Legal Education courses and conferences on<br />
the subject. Whether human rights violations are committed<br />
by corporations or by governments, <strong>CCR</strong> will continue to use<br />
innovative legal strategies to hold violators accountable.<br />
1980<br />
Filártiga v. Peña-Irala<br />
Revived Alien Tort Statute (ATS) <strong>for</strong> lawsuits by non-citizens in U.S.<br />
courts challenging violations of international human rights. Won a<br />
suit on behalf of the family of Joelito Filártiga, son of a prominent<br />
opponent of the right-wing Paraguayan regime, who was tortured and<br />
killed by Paraguayan police.<br />
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1981<br />
Dotson v. City of Indianola, Miss.<br />
Compelled the city to comply with<br />
the Voting <strong>Rights</strong> Act.<br />
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1980<br />
Harris v. McRae<br />
Challenged the Hyde Amendment<br />
restricting poor women’s right to federal<br />
Medicaid funding <strong>for</strong> abortion, lost 5-4<br />
in the Supreme Court.<br />
1982<br />
Crumsey v. Justice Knights of the Ku Klux Klan<br />
Revived a 19th century statute to win the first<br />
damages case against the KKK and secured an<br />
injunction against their campaign of assault,<br />
intimidation and harassment.
International Law and Accountability<br />
It has been more than three years since the revelations of<br />
torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, yet aside from a<br />
few prosecutions of low-level officials, there has been no<br />
accountability up the chain of command. Last fall, <strong>CCR</strong> filed<br />
a renewed complaint in Germany charging Donald Rumsfeld,<br />
Alberto Gonzales, and 12 other high-ranking U.S. officials with<br />
responsibility <strong>for</strong> war crimes under the doctrine of universal<br />
jurisdiction, which allows suspected war criminals to be prosecuted<br />
regardless of where they are located or where the violations<br />
took place. The complaint was brought on behalf of 13 torture<br />
victims – 12 who were held at Abu Ghraib prison and one detainee<br />
at Guantánamo. In April <strong>2007</strong>, the German Federal Prosecutor,<br />
under political pressure to end the complaint, announced she<br />
would not move <strong>for</strong>ward with an investigation. We are exploring<br />
other international venues <strong>for</strong> the case in order to keep the<br />
spotlight on this issue and keep open the possibility of holding<br />
these officials accountable.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> includes international law claims in many of our cases,<br />
seeking to have U.S. courts recognize these norms and thus<br />
strengthen protections and increase the remedies available to<br />
our clients. We also file amicus briefs in cases brought by other<br />
organizations. For example, this year we filed an amicus arguing<br />
that international law places limits on the government’s power to<br />
deport individuals when it breaks up families – and to broaden the<br />
legal context <strong>for</strong> holding all officials accountable <strong>for</strong> human rights<br />
abuses, no matter where they occur.<br />
In 2004, <strong>CCR</strong>, together with the <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> Justice and Accountability,<br />
filed a civil suit against Emmanuel “Toto” Constant, the<br />
<strong>for</strong>mer leader of the Haitian paramilitary organization FRAPH.<br />
Two of our clients were gang-raped in front of their families and<br />
a third was attacked by FRAPH operatives and left <strong>for</strong> dead. The<br />
lawsuit accused Constant of crimes against humanity, attempted<br />
summary execution and rape and other torture. In August 2006,<br />
Constant was found liable and in October, our clients were<br />
awarded $19 million in damages. We also played a crucial role<br />
this past year in ensuring that Constant, who fled to New York in<br />
1994, was prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law <strong>for</strong> mortgage<br />
fraud he committed while living in the United States.<br />
1983<br />
Briggs v. Goodwin<br />
Led a team of lawyers in successfully defending leaders of the Vietnam Veterans<br />
Against the War and the Gainesville 8, who were prosecuted in Florida <strong>for</strong> conspiring<br />
to disrupt the 1972 Republican National Convention. <strong>CCR</strong>’s jury challenge on<br />
the inclusion of women in juries in this case also <strong>for</strong>med the basis <strong>for</strong> a subsequent<br />
Supreme Court challenge on this issue.<br />
In late 2005, <strong>CCR</strong> brought a class action lawsuit against Lt. Gen.<br />
Moshe Ya’alon, who was head of the Intelligence Branch of the<br />
Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in April 1996 when the IDF shelled a<br />
UN compound in Qana, Lebanon, killing more than 100 civilians,<br />
almost half of whom were children. The case was dismissed in<br />
December 2006, with the judge stating that General Ya’alon<br />
cannot be sued <strong>for</strong> the bombing of the UN compound because<br />
he was acting in his official capacity in the IDF and has immunity<br />
under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> filed a similar lawsuit in December 2005 against Avi<br />
Dichter, <strong>for</strong>mer director of Israel’s General Security Service,<br />
on behalf of Palestinians who were killed or injured in a 2002<br />
air strike in Gaza. Mr. Dichter participated in the decision to drop<br />
a one-ton bomb on a densely populated residential neighborhood.<br />
The attack, which killed seven adults and eight children, injured<br />
more than 150 people and destroyed or damaged almost 40<br />
homes, was widely condemned by the international community,<br />
including the United States government. This case was dismissed<br />
in May <strong>2007</strong>, when the judge ruled that Mr. Dichter was acting in<br />
the course of his official duties and has immunity. <strong>CCR</strong> plans to<br />
appeal both decisions.<br />
As in other areas of <strong>CCR</strong>’s work, our international law and<br />
accountability work is not limited to the courtroom. We are also<br />
deeply involved in public education and grassroots outreach<br />
work around these issues. For example, on January 25, <strong>2007</strong>, we<br />
sponsored an event, “From Pinochet to Rumsfeld,” which focused<br />
on holding U.S. officials accountable <strong>for</strong> torture using the mechanisms<br />
of universal jurisdiction and international law. Featuring<br />
attorneys from <strong>CCR</strong> and our partners in the complaint against<br />
Rumsfeld in Germany, the event linked <strong>CCR</strong>’s international legal<br />
work with the grassroots anti-torture movement.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> often takes cases other organizations will not. We continue<br />
to find creative ways to ensure that no one, no matter how powerful,<br />
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1983<br />
Crockett v. Reagan<br />
Challenged U.S. military involvement<br />
in El Salvador in the first suit under the<br />
War Powers Resolution.<br />
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Prison Telephone Victory<br />
This was an incredible year <strong>for</strong> the New York Campaign<br />
<strong>for</strong> Telephone Justice, <strong>CCR</strong>’s campaign to end the<br />
illegal and exploitative contract between MCI – now<br />
Verizon/MCI – and the New York State Department of<br />
Correctional Services (NYSDOCS).<br />
In order <strong>for</strong> families to stay in touch with their loved ones in New<br />
York State prisons by phone, they must accept collect calls from a<br />
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1983<br />
Soto v. Romero-Barcelo<br />
Brought suit to uncover FBI involvement in the killing of young<br />
pro-independence activists at Cerro Maravilla, Puerto Rico. Led to substantial<br />
awards to plaintiffs, televised Puerto Rican Senate hearings and<br />
several convictions of police officers <strong>for</strong> obstruction of justice and perjury.<br />
Ivey Walton, plaintiff in Walton v. New York<br />
State Department of Correctional Services,<br />
one of our prison telephone cases<br />
monopoly provider that until recently cost 630 percent more than<br />
regular consumer rates and provided a nearly 60 percent kickback<br />
commission to the State.<br />
Since 1999, <strong>CCR</strong> has been fighting in the courts and on the<br />
ground to end the contract. Family members repeatedly reported<br />
to <strong>CCR</strong> that they were being <strong>for</strong>ced to choose between paying<br />
<strong>for</strong> basic needs like rent, utilities and food and speaking to their<br />
loved ones in prison. With funding from the JEHT foundation,<br />
1983<br />
Conyers v. Reagan<br />
Challenged the U.S.<br />
invasion of Grenada.<br />
1983<br />
Nation v. Haig<br />
Defended the right of<br />
Americans to receive<br />
Cuban publications.
the <strong>Center</strong> launched the New York Campaign <strong>for</strong> Telephone<br />
Justice in late 2004, mobilizing prison families across the state<br />
in a strategic ef<strong>for</strong>t that combined grassroots organizing, innovative<br />
media and marketing techniques, and aggressive legislative<br />
advocacy.<br />
The culmination of this Campaign occurred in January <strong>2007</strong><br />
when New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer, a mere eight days<br />
into his new administration, announced the elimination of the<br />
kickback commissions which immediately reduced the prison<br />
telephone rates by half with additional savings anticipated. In<br />
response to our ef<strong>for</strong>ts, the New York State Legislature passed<br />
our Family Connections Bill, which bars New York State from<br />
profiting from any future prison telephone contracts and must<br />
“prioritize the lowest cost to the consumer” rather than providing<br />
the highest commission <strong>for</strong> the State.<br />
We continue the fight in court with Walton v. NYSDOCS and<br />
MCI, which seeks a judgment that the State’s commission is<br />
an illegal and unconstitutional tax and would compensate<br />
affected families <strong>for</strong> the years that they have overpaid <strong>for</strong> calls<br />
from loved ones.<br />
Studies almost universally find that maintaining close and<br />
consistent ties with one’s family and community is the single<br />
most important factor in a prisoner’s success when released<br />
and re-entering society. Yet, more than 40 states have similar<br />
policies, gouging prison families <strong>for</strong> profit and keeping families<br />
disconnected.<br />
After our amazing success this year in New York, we will be<br />
working with local grassroots groups and activists in other states<br />
to end the practice across the country. We seek to bring family<br />
members, policy makers and criminal justice advocates together<br />
to examine this issue and to strategize around making the Campaign<br />
<strong>for</strong> Telephone Justice a national ef<strong>for</strong>t so that all families<br />
and inmates receive fair rates and can remain in touch with their<br />
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1984<br />
Reagan v. Wald<br />
Sought, with Leonard Boudin and the NECLC, to enjoin<br />
restrictions on travel to Cuba on the basis that such<br />
restrictions deprived people of the constitutional right to<br />
travel; lost 5-4 in the Supreme Court.<br />
1984<br />
Sanchez v. Reagan<br />
Challenged U.S. officials’<br />
support <strong>for</strong> torture, murder<br />
and rape in Nicaragua.<br />
Prison Justice<br />
In addition to our Prison Telephone Campaign, <strong>CCR</strong> has<br />
continued to keep a spotlight on issues of mass incarceration<br />
and access to justice <strong>for</strong> prisoners.<br />
Jailhouse Lawyers’ Handbook<br />
In response to an overwhelming demand, this year we produced<br />
and mailed over 3,000 copies of the Jailhouse Lawyer’s<br />
Handbook: How to Bring a Federal Lawsuit to Challenge Violations<br />
of your <strong>Rights</strong> in Prison, to inmates across the country.<br />
Co-authored in 2003 by <strong>CCR</strong> and the National Lawyers Guild,<br />
the handbook is a free resource <strong>for</strong> prisoners and their family<br />
members who wish to learn about legal options <strong>for</strong> challenging<br />
mistreatment in prison.<br />
‘Supermax’ Prison Case<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> continues work on our Ohio ‘supermax’ prison case:<br />
Wilkinson v. Austin. Since our 2004 Court of Appeals victory,<br />
the case was remanded to District Court where <strong>CCR</strong> continues<br />
the struggle to en<strong>for</strong>ce the Court’s ruling that prisoners cannot<br />
be held in prolonged solitary confinement without due process.<br />
In addition, there has been a suicide and a number of suicide<br />
attempts at the prison, and we are seeking a hearing to<br />
re-impose psychiatric care requirements.<br />
Jail Expansion <strong>Report</strong><br />
In May <strong>2007</strong>, we issued Impacts of Jail Expansion in New York<br />
State: A Hidden Burden, authored by Dana Kaplan, <strong>CCR</strong>’s Open<br />
Society Institute Soros Justice Fellow. The report finds that the<br />
recent increase in jail expansion is driven by a little-known<br />
state agency – the State Commission of Corrections (SCOC)<br />
– rather than the needs and wishes of local municipalities,<br />
despite the fact that the overall need <strong>for</strong> space is decreasing.<br />
Ms. Kaplan also completed a six month residency in New<br />
Orleans assessing post-Katrina detention issues.<br />
1985<br />
CISPES v. FBI<br />
Brought suit after <strong>CCR</strong>’s Movement<br />
Support Network campaign and<br />
Freedom of In<strong>for</strong>mation Act requests<br />
revealed massive spying on the El<br />
Salvador solidarity movement.<br />
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1985<br />
Greenham Women Against Cruise Missiles v. Reagan<br />
Fought nuclear weapons proliferation; sought to use the U.S.<br />
legal system to enjoin the United States from deploying first use<br />
nuclear missiles in Great Britain.<br />
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1985<br />
McSurely v. McClellan<br />
Won damages from the U.S. government on behalf of Al and<br />
Margaret McSurely, two voting rights activists, <strong>for</strong> gross violation<br />
of their privacy and Fourth Amendment rights.
Since 9/11, the United States has ramped up its global<br />
detention and rendition policies in an irrational calculus<br />
that claims security requires putting severe limits on<br />
civil and human rights. Secret trials, arbitrary detention,<br />
inhumane conditions of detention and chilling of political<br />
expression are all being employed domestically as well, primarily<br />
targeting immigrant communities. <strong>CCR</strong> has several cases that<br />
challenge the U.S. government’s attacks on immigrants in the<br />
name of national security.<br />
In response to the racial profiling and detention of more<br />
than 1,200 Arab, South Asian, and Muslim men in the months<br />
following September 11, 2001, <strong>CCR</strong> filed Turkmen v. Ashcroft<br />
in 2002 on behalf of a class of non-citizens from Arab and South<br />
Asian countries who were detained at the Metropolitan Detention<br />
<strong>Center</strong> (MDC) in Brooklyn, NY. Even though most of these<br />
men were being held <strong>for</strong> minor visa or immigration violations,<br />
some were held without charge <strong>for</strong> as long as nine months and<br />
subjected to severe verbal and physical abuse.<br />
In June 2006, we won an important victory when the court ruled<br />
that senior government officials would not be excluded from the<br />
case under the theory of governmental immunity. Government<br />
officials, including FBI Director Robert Mueller and <strong>for</strong>mer<br />
Attorney General John Ashcroft, remain on the complaint and<br />
may be held accountable in the courts. Un<strong>for</strong>tunately, the court<br />
also dismissed <strong>CCR</strong>’s racial profiling and prolonged detention<br />
claims. Both sides are appealing.<br />
In April <strong>2007</strong>, three amicus briefs solicited by <strong>CCR</strong> were filed.<br />
The first is by descendants of Japanese Americans interned during<br />
World War II, outlining the parallels between what was done to<br />
Japanese Americans in the 1940’s and the profiling of Muslim,<br />
Arab, and South Asian men today. Said one of the descendants,<br />
Jay Hirabayashi, “I joined the amicus brief because I believe<br />
that the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of <strong>Rights</strong> should be<br />
inviolable in time of war as much as they are in times of peace.<br />
That’s what my father always said and he went to prison holding<br />
those beliefs.”<br />
1985<br />
U.S. v. Maria del Scorro Pardo de Aguilar<br />
Defended sanctuary workers, members of church groups who<br />
provided shelter, medical care and protection <strong>for</strong> refugees from<br />
El Salvador and Guatemala, from government prosecution.<br />
Attacks on Immigrants<br />
The second amicus brief is from <strong>for</strong>mer prison wardens and<br />
explains the dangers of segregating prisoners on the basis of race<br />
or religion. The third was submitted by immigration scholars<br />
and explains how settled immigration law was misapplied by<br />
the lower court when it held that the government did not violate<br />
the law by keeping these men <strong>for</strong> weeks and months beyond<br />
when their immigration issues had been resolved. Briefing was<br />
completed over the summer, and we expect arguments to be<br />
scheduled <strong>for</strong> this fall. In the meantime, <strong>CCR</strong> has completed over<br />
40 depositions of defendants and witnesses and traveled to Egypt<br />
and Turkey to conduct investigations.<br />
In January <strong>2007</strong>, <strong>CCR</strong> won a major victory <strong>for</strong> members of the<br />
“Los Angeles 8” when an immigration judge ordered an end to<br />
deportation proceedings against Khader Hamide and Michel<br />
Shehadeh. The judge terminated the proceedings because of<br />
the government’s refusal to disclose evidence favorable to the<br />
immigrants in compliance with his orders, calling the government’s<br />
actions in the twenty-year-long case “an embarrassment<br />
to the rule of law.”<br />
The government had been seeking to deport Hamide and<br />
Shehadeh since January 1987 based on their alleged support<br />
<strong>for</strong> the Popular Front <strong>for</strong> the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP),<br />
a group within the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).<br />
This ‘support’ consisted entirely of lawful First Amendment<br />
activities, includ ing distributing newspapers, participating in<br />
demonstrations and organizing humanitarian aid fundraisers<br />
<strong>for</strong> Palestinians.<br />
Throughout the year, we continued our coalition work with<br />
immigrants’ rights groups including Detention Watch Network<br />
and <strong>Rights</strong> Working Group. In January, <strong>CCR</strong> and a host of other<br />
national organizations filed a petition with the Department of<br />
Homeland Security to create en<strong>for</strong>ceable regulations governing<br />
detention centers. <strong>CCR</strong> remains dedicated to defending everyone’s<br />
right to fair and open trials and to ending the targeting of<br />
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1986<br />
Republic of the Philippines v. Marcos<br />
Recovered New York real estate bought<br />
with illicit funds by Philippine dictator.<br />
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Warrantless Surveillance<br />
For decades, the U.S. government has used unlawful<br />
surveillance to monitor and intimidate activists: from the<br />
Black Panthers and the anti-war movement in the 1960’s<br />
and 70’s, to the Central America Solidarity Movement<br />
in the 80’s, to administration critics today. For decades <strong>CCR</strong> has<br />
been there to challenge these programs.<br />
1986<br />
People v. Liberta (amicus)<br />
Struck down New York<br />
State’s marital rape exemption<br />
in its entirety.<br />
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1986<br />
Kinoy v. Mitchell<br />
Challenged warrantless wiretapping<br />
and massive surveillance of Arthur<br />
Kinoy in his role as lawyer <strong>for</strong> the<br />
United Electrical Workers.<br />
Almost two years ago The New York Times revealed that since<br />
2001, the National Security Agency (NSA) had engaged in<br />
warrantless electronic surveillance in violation of the U.S. Constitution<br />
and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) with<br />
the express approval of President Bush. Enacted in 1978, FISA<br />
sought to prevent abuses of power by the Executive like those<br />
under the Nixon Administration. <strong>CCR</strong> won a landmark decision<br />
in 1972 (U.S. v U.S. District Court (Keith)) that struck down<br />
President Nixon’s warrantless surveillance of domestic activists.<br />
1987<br />
United States v. Turner<br />
Secured the acquittal of voting rights activists charged<br />
with voter fraud and revealed a Justice Department<br />
campaign to intimidate activists who sought to ensure<br />
compliance with the 1965 Voting <strong>Rights</strong> Act.
Within weeks of learning about the NSA program, we filed <strong>CCR</strong><br />
v. Bush in early 2006—arguing that the program violates FISA,<br />
the First and Fourth Amendments and the separation of powers.<br />
In December, a judicial panel ordered <strong>CCR</strong> v. Bush transferred to<br />
a court in San Francisco where related cases are being argued. In<br />
January <strong>2007</strong>, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales announced that<br />
the President had decided to let the existing warrantless NSA<br />
program expire because the administration had convinced a<br />
single judge of the secret FISA court to issue orders that, according<br />
to Gonzales, would allow the same sort of surveillance to<br />
occur—thus allowing the government to claim our case was now<br />
moot. <strong>CCR</strong> fought that argument saying there was no assurance<br />
that the administration had indeed stopped the spying or that the<br />
FISA oversight complied with the spirit or the letter of the law.<br />
This past summer, it was revealed that two other FISA judges<br />
found that those surveillance orders were invalid when they came<br />
up <strong>for</strong> renewal in April and May.<br />
The government claims the orders—like everything else relating<br />
to the NSA Program—are secret. Because of this, they have not<br />
been made public, nor have they even been released to Congress.<br />
Four days be<strong>for</strong>e we were to argue our case, the Democratic Congress<br />
passed a Bush administration bill effectively gutting FISA’s<br />
protections <strong>for</strong> phone calls and emails with people overseas.<br />
The day after the argument, <strong>CCR</strong> attorneys filed the first papers<br />
challenging the new statute on Fourth Amendment grounds.<br />
In a related case filed this year, Wilner v. NSA, <strong>CCR</strong> went to court<br />
to <strong>for</strong>ce compliance with Freedom of In<strong>for</strong>mation Act (FOIA)<br />
requests we made in January 2006 requesting all records of NSA<br />
warrantless wiretapping of attorneys who represent men detained<br />
at Guantánamo. The plaintiffs, who include <strong>CCR</strong> attorneys as well<br />
as co-counsel, believe that conversations between themselves and<br />
family members and <strong>for</strong>eign attorneys of clients at Guantánamo<br />
were illegally monitored by the government.<br />
Last year, we also filed an amicus brief in Hepting v. AT&T,<br />
arguing <strong>for</strong> the release of documents that disclose AT&T’s<br />
1987<br />
Jackson v. Allain<br />
Filed a federal class action lawsuit<br />
challenging racially discriminatory<br />
runoff elections in Mississippi.<br />
Surveillance & Material Support<br />
1988<br />
Haase v. Webster<br />
Challenged Customs Service spying,<br />
seizure and copying of address books<br />
of travelers to Nicaragua.<br />
involvement with NSA data mining and the warrantless surveillance<br />
program. We will continue to press the administration <strong>for</strong><br />
a full accounting of its domestic spying and work to expose more<br />
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Material Support:<br />
Guilt by Association<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> has a series of cases that challenge statutes<br />
making it illegal to provide support, including<br />
humanitarian aid, expert advice or political<br />
advocacy, to any <strong>for</strong>eign entity that the executive<br />
branch decides to designate as a “terrorist” group. The<br />
lead plaintiff in the cases is the Humanitarian Law Project<br />
(HLP), a Los Angeles-based non-profit that advocates <strong>for</strong> the<br />
peaceful resolution of armed conflicts and wanted to assist<br />
the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) by providing them with<br />
training in nonviolent conflict resolution and human rights<br />
monitoring in Turkey. Several Tamil-American organizations<br />
who are seeking to provide medical assistance to tsunami<br />
victims and expertise to improve healthcare in war-ravaged<br />
northeast Sri Lanka—which would require working in areas<br />
controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)—<br />
are also represented in the cases. Because both the PKK and<br />
LTTE are on the State Department’s blacklist of “<strong>for</strong>eign<br />
terrorist organizations,” providing such humanitarian<br />
assistance could result in long jail terms.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> argues that the material support provisions in the<br />
material support statute and related prohibitions created<br />
by President Bush’s executive order, violate the First<br />
Amendment and create guilt by association by criminalizing<br />
support solely intended to promote the lawful and non-violent<br />
activities of a designated organization. The court has ruled<br />
multiple times that the provisions are unconstitutionally<br />
vague. Both sides have appealed from parts of the district<br />
judges’ latest rulings, and we are currently awaiting a<br />
decision from the Court of Appeals.<br />
1988<br />
Martinez-Baca v. Suarez-Mason<br />
Sought justice <strong>for</strong> victims of<br />
Argentine death squads under<br />
Alien Tort Statute.<br />
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1988<br />
NOW v. Terry<br />
Established precedent <strong>for</strong> a buffer zone around<br />
abortion clinics, where anti-abortion “Operation<br />
Rescue” campaigners could not harass or intimidate<br />
women seeking medical services.<br />
1988<br />
Veterans Peace Convoy v. Schultz<br />
Represented veterans’ group stopped<br />
at border when it tried to leave U.S.<br />
with humanitarian aid <strong>for</strong> Nicaragua,<br />
and won.<br />
Free Trade of the Americas (FTAA)<br />
protest in Miami, November 2003<br />
1988<br />
Palestine In<strong>for</strong>mation Office v. Schultz<br />
(amicus)<br />
Defended PIO’s right to disseminate<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mation freely as guaranteed by the<br />
Universal Declaration of Human <strong>Rights</strong>.
<strong>CCR</strong> continues to vigorously defend the right to protest<br />
government practices as one of the most fundamental<br />
and necessary liberties <strong>for</strong> a society that considers itself<br />
a democracy.<br />
In April <strong>2007</strong>, <strong>CCR</strong> filed a case on behalf of three Black activists<br />
who were arrested while filming members of the New York City<br />
Police Department as part of a CopWatch program.<br />
The three plaintiffs are all members of the Malcolm X Grassroots<br />
Movement (MXGM), a community-based organization that seeks<br />
to defend the human rights of the Black community. The MXGM<br />
CopWatch program is modeled after the police accountability<br />
activities of the Black Panthers and seeks to expose, document,<br />
and deter abuse in the Black community by observing police<br />
activities in neighborhoods where police misconduct and violence<br />
are rampant.<br />
The suit charges that their constitutional rights were violated when<br />
they were falsely arrested <strong>for</strong> exercising their First Amendment<br />
right to videotape police activity. With this case, Bandele v. City<br />
of New York, <strong>CCR</strong> continues our proud history of legal work that<br />
supports political movements on the ground, in the streets and in<br />
court.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong>’s work protecting the right to dissent further expanded<br />
by taking on new cases that challenge the mass arrests of<br />
protesters during the first U.S. meeting of the Free Trade Area<br />
of the Americas (FTAA) in Miami, Florida in November 2003.<br />
During the demonstration, more than 280 people were arrested;<br />
not one was convicted.<br />
This year, <strong>CCR</strong> joined with the National Lawyers Guild’s Mass<br />
Defense Committee on Killmon, et al. v. City of Miami, et al.,<br />
Freedom of Expression<br />
& the Right to Dissent<br />
From its very beginnings in the Southern civil rights movement,<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> has always been at the <strong>for</strong>efront of defending political movements<br />
and activists, and in particular our right to criticize the<br />
government. Texas v. Johnson is an example of the role <strong>CCR</strong> has<br />
played in defending the right to political expression and dissent.<br />
1989<br />
In the Matter of Randall<br />
Won right of poet Margaret Randall to<br />
regain her U.S. citizenship in the face of<br />
attacks by U.S. that she was ineligible<br />
because she was a Communist.<br />
1989<br />
Texas v. Johnson<br />
Won decision in the Supreme<br />
Court and defended freedom of<br />
expression in flag burning case.<br />
Attacks on Dissent<br />
a class action on behalf of 21 activists that challenges the government’s<br />
deliberate disruption of lawful political protests during<br />
the FTAA proceedings. Pursuant to a joint operational plan, over<br />
40 state, local and federal agencies created the so-called “Miami<br />
Model” of policing mass demonstrations in the U.S. using political<br />
profiling, mass false arrests and so called “less-lethal” weapons.<br />
The case also takes on the illegal actions of the Department of<br />
Homeland Security and FBI in conducting unlawful surveillance<br />
and intelligence gathering on activists. This case is currently in<br />
discovery and is scheduled <strong>for</strong> trial in 2008.<br />
The <strong>Center</strong>’s staff attorneys also assisted in the settlement of a<br />
lawsuit brought in June 2006 on behalf of the Florida Alliance <strong>for</strong><br />
Retired Americans, the Broward Anti-War Coalition, the Broward<br />
County Green Party, the Green Party of Florida, Haiti Solidarity<br />
and Lake Worth <strong>for</strong> Global Justice. Florida Alliance <strong>for</strong> Retired<br />
Americans v. City of Fort Lauderdale was filed to protect constitutional<br />
rights in anticipation of human rights protests at the first<br />
U.S. meeting of the Organization of American States (OAS).<br />
After tactics used by the City of Miami in 2003 to curtail protests<br />
at the FTAA meetings, the groups sought to have the court uphold<br />
their constitutional rights in order to deter police misconduct,<br />
preempt unlawful arrests and prevent infringement on their constitutional<br />
right to freedom of speech and assembly. A settlement<br />
was reached in May <strong>2007</strong> that prohibits the City of Ft. Lauderdale<br />
from en<strong>for</strong>cing ordinances which allowed government officials to<br />
restrict political demonstrations on public sidewalks and streets in<br />
violation of the First Amendment.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> continues to fight the 2003 wrongful arrests of 53<br />
peaceful anti-war protesters in our case Kunstler v. City of New<br />
York. Along with co-counsel at Emory, Celli, Brinkerhoff &<br />
Abady, we recently succeeded in fighting off the City’s attempt<br />
to <strong>for</strong>ce the protesters to produce all of their past psychological<br />
files, and we are currently involved in a dispute over the City’s<br />
refusal to state whether undercover police officers were present<br />
at the demonstration, and the extent of the police infiltration and<br />
surveillance of the group’s organizing coalition. We expect the<br />
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1990<br />
County Redistricting Cases<br />
Ensured that electoral redistricting complied with<br />
federal standards set by the Voting <strong>Rights</strong> Act in<br />
more than a dozen cases brought in the South.<br />
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The Ella Baker Fellowship Program<br />
This year, the <strong>Center</strong> proudly<br />
commemorates the 20th anniversary<br />
of our renowned Ella Baker<br />
Fellowship Program, created<br />
in 1987 to fulfill part of <strong>CCR</strong>’s mission:<br />
to train the next generation of people’s<br />
lawyers. Named after Ella Baker to honor<br />
the memory and legacy of a great and<br />
often unheralded leader of the civil rights<br />
movement, the program strives to embody<br />
Ella Baker’s firm commitment to mentoring<br />
and developing young leaders to carry<br />
the mantle of the struggle <strong>for</strong> social justice<br />
through the generations.<br />
Ella Baker<br />
Born in Virginia in 1903, Ella Baker graduated<br />
from Shaw University and shortly<br />
after moved to Harlem, where she found<br />
a community that shared her interest in<br />
social justice. After serving in several posts<br />
with the NAACP, Ms. Baker turned her<br />
attention to grassroots organizing, finding<br />
the emphasis on legal strategies alone insufficient.<br />
As a woman in a male dominated<br />
movement, Ella Baker pushed beyond<br />
long-established norms and distinguished<br />
herself as a leader in her own right.<br />
She played a several key roles with the<br />
Southern Christian Leadership Conference<br />
(SCLC) and then turned her attention to<br />
organizing students through the Student<br />
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee<br />
(SNCC). Her commitment to the concept<br />
of group-centered leadership evolved into<br />
a defining element of her approach to<br />
movement work. She was also instrumental<br />
in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic<br />
Party ef<strong>for</strong>t that would bring the founders<br />
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1990<br />
Municipal At-Large Cases<br />
Rid municipalities throughout<br />
the southern United States of<br />
this particular type of racially<br />
discriminatory voting system.<br />
of <strong>CCR</strong> to the South in 1964 and lay the<br />
foundation <strong>for</strong> the <strong>Center</strong>’s work over the<br />
next 40 years.<br />
The Ella Baker<br />
Fellowship Program<br />
The Ella Baker Fellowship Program was<br />
established in 1987 by Marilyn Clement,<br />
<strong>CCR</strong>’s then Executive Director. When Ella<br />
Baker passed away in December 1986,<br />
Marilyn attended her funeral and was<br />
struck by how many groups within the civil<br />
rights movement were represented, in spite<br />
of differences that existed among them.<br />
“They all came together to honor Miss<br />
Baker,” Marilyn recalls, “and I saw the effect<br />
that one tiny powerful figure, a woman<br />
no less, could have in changing history.”<br />
Marilyn immediately decided to create an<br />
Ella Baker Student <strong>Center</strong> to help students<br />
develop their political education. The goal<br />
has always been to cultivate and nurture<br />
dedicated political lawyers and activists.<br />
The Ella Baker Fellowship has trained hundreds<br />
of students over the past 20 years.<br />
Most have gone on to careers dedicated<br />
to public service: from indigent defense<br />
to prison re<strong>for</strong>m litigation; international<br />
human rights law and social and economic<br />
rights to racial justice and police misconduct<br />
work. Others lead organizations that<br />
are dedicated to the principles espoused by<br />
Ella Baker. The <strong>Center</strong> is proud of the Ella<br />
Baker Fellowship Program, a powerful<br />
immersion in legal and political education,<br />
and is equally proud of the legions of<br />
Fellows who have continued the tradition<br />
of political lawyering created by <strong>CCR</strong> four<br />
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1990<br />
Dellums v. Bush<br />
Challenged George H. W. Bush’s<br />
attempt to declare war unilaterally,<br />
without congressional authorization,<br />
during the first Gulf War.<br />
Internships and<br />
Fellowships<br />
In addition to the Ella Baker Program,<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> offers undergraduate students the<br />
opportunity to work on cases as well<br />
as campaigns throughout the year. At<br />
any given time, there are several college<br />
students assisting attorneys and<br />
organizers with intake, responding to<br />
requests <strong>for</strong> in<strong>for</strong>mation, and providing<br />
much-needed help with event planning<br />
and outreach. We are also very proud<br />
of our International Scholars program,<br />
which brings law students and lawyers<br />
from around the globe to spend time at<br />
<strong>CCR</strong>, examining the American system<br />
of jurisprudence and working with <strong>CCR</strong><br />
attorneys to develop knowledge about<br />
international law and human rights<br />
litigation. We have hosted scholars<br />
from England, Germany, East Timor,<br />
Trinidad, People’s Republic of China,<br />
and many other countries.<br />
1990<br />
U.S. v. Eichman<br />
Defended freedom of expression and won decision<br />
in the Supreme Court <strong>for</strong> the second time<br />
in flag burning case.
1991<br />
American Baptist Churches v. Thornburgh<br />
With the National Lawyers Guild and Marc<br />
Van der Hout, won asylum <strong>for</strong> Salvadoran<br />
and Guatemalan nationals fleeing persecution<br />
by U.S.-supported regimes.<br />
1991<br />
The Nation Magazine v. U.S.<br />
Department of Defense<br />
Challenged government press<br />
restrictions during first Gulf War.<br />
Celebrating 20 Years<br />
LaShawn Warren, Ella Baker Class of 1995<br />
Raised in Savannah, Georgia, LaShawn Warren experienced the harsh realities of growing up without<br />
material wealth in a racially charged city, but she credits these experiences with helping her bring<br />
understanding and passion to her civil rights advocacy work. She applied to the Ella Baker program “to better<br />
understand the practical application of the law, particularly as it relates to minority voting rights in the South.”<br />
Since graduating from Howard University School of Law in 1996, LaShawn has held several public<br />
interest legal positions, including serving as Legislative Counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union in<br />
their Washington National Office. Currently, she serves as Oversight Counsel <strong>for</strong> the House Judiciary<br />
Committee. “During my time at <strong>CCR</strong>, I met so many inspiring people who dedicated their lives to securing justice and equality<br />
<strong>for</strong> minorities throughout the South. I learned a great deal about voting rights law and got a real sense of how the law, if applied<br />
properly, can trans<strong>for</strong>m the lives of everyday people.”<br />
Sunita Patel, Ella Baker Class of 2004<br />
Sunita Patel became an Ella Baker Fellow following her second year at American University School of Law.<br />
The daughter of South Asian immigrants and raised in South Carolina, Sunita developed her interest in<br />
social justice early on, based on her personal experiences. Educated at predominantly Black schools, Sunita<br />
witnessed blatant racism firsthand, and as a teen became involved in organizations dedicated to human rights<br />
and the struggle <strong>for</strong> racial justice. She was greatly influenced by Ajamu Baraka, a new member of the <strong>CCR</strong><br />
Board. “Ajamu inspired in me the concept that social change is shaped by the people – in an ethical way that<br />
recognizes racial justice as a human rights issue,” Sunita says.<br />
Sunita is now an OSI Fellow at the Legal Aid Society of New York where she works on immigrant detention issues. She also<br />
continues to work with <strong>CCR</strong> on a pro se manual <strong>for</strong> immigrant detainees. “Being an Ella Baker really prepared and trained me<br />
to work with community groups as a member of the community. I was exposed to a broad range of experiences – human rights,<br />
international law, and prisoners’ rights.”<br />
Yasmin Davis, Ella Baker Class of <strong>2007</strong><br />
Yasmin Davis was born and raised in the Bronx; both of her parents are from the Dominican Republic.<br />
Her parents’ commitment to Yasmin and her siblings’ success taught her that struggling communities need<br />
strong advocates who can identify with the obstacles and challenges facing that community. Her goal in<br />
attending law school was simple: “I wanted to work <strong>for</strong> my community. Armed with a solid legal education,<br />
an insider’s perspective into the culture, and a background in public interest, I knew I could provide a sense<br />
of familiarity and understanding to my clients as a public defense lawyer.”<br />
Yasmin is entering her final year of law school at CUNY School of Law in New York. While at <strong>CCR</strong>, she<br />
became very involved in the New York Campaign <strong>for</strong> Telephone Justice. “I knew what MCI was doing was wrong. Coming from<br />
a direct services background, I wanted to enhance my knowledge of how impact litigation can be used as a tool to create social<br />
change. I learned how a wide range of strategies are used to move claims <strong>for</strong>ward”.<br />
1992<br />
Weinbaum v. Cuomo<br />
Challenged New York State’s disparate funding of<br />
senior college programs in its two public university<br />
systems; where the overwhelmingly white SUNY<br />
system is funded at higher levels than the minority<br />
CUNY system. First public higher education fiscal<br />
equity case outside the Deep South.<br />
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1992<br />
Linder v. Calero<br />
Exposed U.S. support <strong>for</strong> the Contras in Nicaragua as<br />
responsible <strong>for</strong> the 1987 murder of Benjamin Linder, an<br />
American community worker. 1992 decision won the right<br />
to sue <strong>for</strong> personal injury <strong>for</strong> war crimes.<br />
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<strong>CCR</strong> in the News<br />
The <strong>Center</strong>’s work continues to<br />
recieve wide coverage in the news.<br />
Our staff and board members have<br />
been called upon to provide their<br />
expertise; to comment on cases and<br />
our campaigns; and to represent the<br />
progressive view in the media.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> appeared in a Ted Koppel Discovery<br />
program on Guantánamo, in<br />
a BBC documentary on rendition, in<br />
a Dan Rather <strong>Report</strong>s special on the<br />
“Green Scare,” on the evening news,<br />
and in a feature on MTV News. We<br />
have been repeatedly interviewed in<br />
Movement Support<br />
A key aspect of <strong>CCR</strong>’s mission is to provide support to grassroots<br />
movements. That support comes in many <strong>for</strong>ms, from legal to<br />
material. We provide space <strong>for</strong> meetings and phone banking, help<br />
with press outreach, and bring organizations working on similar<br />
issues together to brainstorm and build coalitions. In the last year,<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> has extended movement support to groups ranging from the<br />
Domestic Workers Union, a growing grassroots movement orga-<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> in Action<br />
major newspapers, had two editorials<br />
run in The New York Times in<br />
support of our prison telephone<br />
work, contributed to and been cited<br />
in countless blogs, and made myriad<br />
appearances on NPR, Pacifica, and<br />
Democracy Now! and many local<br />
and national radio shows running the<br />
gamut from left to right. All of our<br />
media work helps raise the <strong>Center</strong>’s<br />
profile and is critical to changing<br />
the public discourse around the<br />
issues most important to us and<br />
our supporters.<br />
The <strong>Center</strong>’s web based organizing and eductional ef<strong>for</strong>ts have<br />
grown exponentially in the last year. The number of our on-line<br />
supporters has more than doubled to nearly 50,000 and together<br />
we have sent tens of thousands of letters to Congress and other<br />
targets. We alerted activists to looming threats and provided links<br />
to toolkits and resources they could use. The flood of letters to a<br />
New York State Supreme Court judge about the war crimes<br />
committed by Emanuel “Toto” Constant in Haiti so impressed<br />
nizing childcare workers, home aides and housecleaners to fight<br />
<strong>for</strong> their rights, to People’s Justice, a coalition <strong>for</strong>med to fight<br />
police brutality in the wake of the shooting of Sean Bell, to a host<br />
of criminal justice re<strong>for</strong>m advocates organizing to oppose restrictive<br />
revisions to the standards governing New York City prisons.<br />
Strengthening the progressive movement crosses organizational<br />
lines, and <strong>CCR</strong> is proud to offer help.<br />
him that he revoked the plea bargain he had accepted in the<br />
paramilitary leader’s mortgage fraud case. Together we demanded<br />
that Congress restore habeas corpus and close Guantánamo,<br />
that the German federal prosecutor take up our case against Donald<br />
Rumsfeld and Alberto Gonzales and that Condoleezza Rice<br />
prevent one of our clients from being sent home to Libya to be<br />
tortured. Together we target important issues, mobilize activists<br />
and add a unique voice to the political dialogue and legal debate.<br />
1992<br />
AFSC v. Brady<br />
Won right to group travel to<br />
Vietnam and Cambodia.<br />
1993<br />
Haitian <strong>Center</strong>s Council Inc. v. Sale<br />
Secured an order in federal court that<br />
closed detention camp at Guantánamo<br />
Bay <strong>for</strong> HIV-positive Haitian refugees.
Youth Outreach<br />
This past year <strong>CCR</strong> has ventured into<br />
new areas and put renewed energy into<br />
reaching out to students and other young<br />
people through partnerships with high<br />
schools and universities, utilizing media<br />
directed at young people, supporting<br />
student organizing on college campuses,<br />
and expanding our presence on social<br />
networking sites.<br />
As part of our broadened education and<br />
outreach ef<strong>for</strong>ts, we partnered with the<br />
Institute <strong>for</strong> Urban Education at the New<br />
School <strong>for</strong> Social Research in New York<br />
City to develop a high school curriculum<br />
on torture and rendition. In addition, we<br />
established a relationship with the High<br />
School <strong>for</strong> Human <strong>Rights</strong> and sponsored<br />
one of their students as an intern. This intern<br />
assisted our Education and Outreach<br />
Department with the New York Campaign<br />
<strong>for</strong> Telephone Justice and helped organize<br />
the Haitian Support Network protest<br />
during the sentencing of <strong>for</strong>mer Haitian<br />
paramilitary leader Emmanuel “Toto”<br />
Constant.<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> partnered with MTV to produce<br />
a news segment on Guantánamo that<br />
focused on one of our young Guantánamo<br />
Project staff members as she prepared<br />
to visit our clients at the offshore prison<br />
camp. The five-minute-long segment aired<br />
several times over the course of a week on<br />
the station’s news program. A longer video<br />
segment was also available on the MTV<br />
website, where it was accompanied by<br />
a lengthy article highlighting why<br />
Guantánamo is a relevant issue to youth<br />
in the U.S.<br />
1994<br />
Helen Todd v. Sintong Panjaitan<br />
Held Indonesian military official responsible<br />
<strong>for</strong> massacre in East Timor.<br />
As new media and new <strong>for</strong>ms of online<br />
social interaction continue to grow in<br />
importance, we have begun exploring how<br />
to best use these technologies to<br />
engage a broader audience. As part of<br />
those ef<strong>for</strong>ts, we created new social<br />
networking pages on MySpace and<br />
Facebook and posted video clips on<br />
YouTube featuring interviews of many<br />
of our clients, such as Canadian rendition<br />
victim Maher Arar.<br />
On Law Day, May 1, <strong>2007</strong>, <strong>CCR</strong> organized<br />
law students across the country to<br />
fight the Military Commissions Act, in<br />
1994<br />
Paul v. Avril<br />
Won $41 million judgment against<br />
Haitian military dictator responsible<br />
<strong>for</strong> torturing political dissidents.<br />
particular the provision that attempts to<br />
strip the right of habeas corpus from the<br />
detainees. Re-naming the day “Restore<br />
Habeas Corpus Day,” law students from<br />
Harvard University, American University,<br />
the UC Berkeley, and several other<br />
schools participated in demonstrations,<br />
signature drives, letter-writing campaigns,<br />
and other <strong>for</strong>ms of advocacy to call on the<br />
government to restore habeas corpus and<br />
close down Guantánamo. In the coming<br />
year, we hope to build on these relationships<br />
and continue to work with students<br />
and other young people on many of our<br />
issues. n<br />
Young Activist Fights For Detainee <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Susan Hu, a recent Columbia<br />
graduate, talks about the<br />
“hopelessness” she discovered<br />
at Guantánamo Bay, where 380<br />
so-called “enemy combatants” are<br />
being held.<br />
Now Playing Clip 1 of 1<br />
Guantánamo Bay:<br />
‘No End In Sight’<br />
A young activist talks about her<br />
experience visiting the detention<br />
center, where 380 men who have<br />
not stood trial are being held.<br />
(5.15.07)<br />
Guantánamo Bay: ‘No End In Sight’<br />
A young activist talks about her experience visiting the detention<br />
center, where 380 men who have not stood trial are being<br />
held. (5.15.07)<br />
To view this video, go to www.mtv.com and search ‘young activist’<br />
1995<br />
Lebron v. Amtrak<br />
Won Supreme Court decision that struck<br />
down federal restriction of political<br />
artwork in New York’s Penn Station.<br />
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40th Anniversary Celebration<br />
Our May <strong>2007</strong> President’s Reception honored the work and the people who make the <strong>Center</strong> what it is: our staff, board members, supporters,<br />
clients and allies. Thank you to everyone who made it possible <strong>for</strong> <strong>CCR</strong> to be on the frontlines <strong>for</strong> social justice <strong>for</strong> over 40 years. We wish<br />
everyone could have joined us. Here are a few photos from that evening.<br />
Vincent Warren<br />
Ann Cammett<br />
1995<br />
StreetWatch v. National Railroad Passenger Corp.<br />
Won an injunction in federal court preventing<br />
Amtrak police from evicting or arresting those they<br />
suspected of being homeless where no criminal<br />
behavior was suspected.<br />
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Allison Barlow<br />
Nancy Meyer<br />
Herbert Kurz<br />
Dolly Filártiga<br />
1995<br />
Xuncax v. Gramajo; Ortiz v. Gramajo<br />
Held Guatemalan Minister of<br />
Defense responsible <strong>for</strong> torture,<br />
assault and false imprisonment.<br />
Kim Kerkley<br />
Michelle DePass<br />
1998<br />
Salas v. United States<br />
Required the U.S. to respond to an international<br />
tribunal <strong>for</strong> the first time with respect<br />
to allegations by ordinary citizens of gross<br />
human rights violations committed during<br />
U.S. invasion of Panama.
Cassim and Chung-Ja Jadwat<br />
Wayne Roberts and Annie Hess<br />
1998<br />
Finley v. NEA<br />
Challenged the decency provision in<br />
government grants to artists; lost in<br />
an 8-1 Supreme Court decision.<br />
Shayana Kadidal and Jaykumar Menon<br />
Edith Ziefert and Rachel Meeropol<br />
Frank Deale<br />
1999<br />
Campaign To Save Our Hospitals v. Giuliani<br />
Won case in the New York State Court of<br />
Appeals to prevent the takeover of public<br />
hospitals in New York City by <strong>for</strong>-profit<br />
private companies.<br />
Karen Ranucci and Michael Ratner<br />
1999<br />
Reno v. American-Arab<br />
Anti-Discrimination Committee<br />
Challenged selective en<strong>for</strong>cement of<br />
immigration laws in defense of Palestinian<br />
activists singled out <strong>for</strong> deportation<br />
because of their political beliefs.<br />
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1999<br />
Goosby v. Town of Hempstead<br />
Contested Hempstead NY’s at-large<br />
voting system, which was racially<br />
discriminatory; <strong>for</strong>ced a trans<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
of the voting system.<br />
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The <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Constitutional</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> was the first human<br />
rights organization to fight <strong>for</strong> the rights of detainees<br />
at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station and has been at the<br />
<strong>for</strong>efront of the battle to end the use of offshore prisons<br />
outside the reach of law. After winning a landmark Supreme<br />
Court decision establishing that Guantánamo detainees can<br />
challenge their detention in federal courts, <strong>CCR</strong> organized a<br />
network of over 500 pro bono lawyers to file habeas corpus<br />
petitions and founded the Guantanamo Global Justice<br />
Initiative to coordinate this work.<br />
The U.S. government has made every ef<strong>for</strong>t to evade<br />
judicial review of its detention and interrogation practices<br />
at Guantánamo Bay and consistently claims that detainees<br />
need not ever be charged with a crime and tried, or given<br />
an opportunity to challenge their detention in court. During<br />
the past five years, <strong>CCR</strong> has compiled evidence that many of<br />
the detainees have been tortured, abused, and humiliated<br />
while in U.S. custody. We continue to call <strong>for</strong> humane<br />
treatment of detainees and <strong>for</strong> the closing of the prison at<br />
Guantánamo Bay.<br />
More than five years after the first prisoners were sent to<br />
Guantánamo, <strong>CCR</strong> continues to be a leader in the movement<br />
to recognize habeas rights <strong>for</strong> detainees, regardless of<br />
where they are held. We are working to ban torture and to<br />
improve detention conditions at Guantanamo, at Bagram<br />
Airbase in Afghanistan, at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere in Iraq,<br />
and at secret CIA prisons around the world. As U.S. proxy<br />
detention expands to the Horn of Africa and beyond, <strong>CCR</strong>’s<br />
Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative remains dedicated to<br />
the fight against secrecy and torture; to holding the U.S.<br />
government accountable <strong>for</strong> its illegal actions; and to<br />
obtaining justice <strong>for</strong> the victims.<br />
Case Index<br />
Al Odah v. United States<br />
Lead case, with Boumediene v. Bush, in a group of consolidated<br />
habeas corpus petitions on behalf of Guantánamo detainees.<br />
These cases will be heard by the Supreme Court in the coming<br />
term, and the outcome will determine the rights of the detainees<br />
to challenge their detention in U.S. federal courts<br />
Al-Qahtani v. Bush<br />
Habeas corpus and DTA petition <strong>for</strong> Mohammed Al Qahtani,<br />
who suffered physical and psychological torture when he was<br />
subjected to the extraordinarily abusive “First Special Interrogation<br />
Plan” authorized by Donald Rumsfeld<br />
John Does 1-570 v. Bush<br />
Habeas corpus petition filed on behalf of the hundreds of<br />
unknown and unrepresented detainees in Guantánamo Bay<br />
in 2005<br />
Khan v. Bush<br />
Habeas corpus petition <strong>for</strong> Majid Khan, who was held in<br />
CIA secret detention <strong>for</strong> several years prior to his transfer to<br />
Guantánamo<br />
Ayoub Haji Mamet v. Bush and Razakah v. Bush<br />
Habeas corpus petitions <strong>for</strong> five Uighurs mistakenly captured<br />
by bounty hunters and sold to the U.S. military. Three have been<br />
released to a refugee center in Albania, while two remain in<br />
Guantánamo five years later, despite being told that their capture<br />
was a mistake<br />
Rasul v. Rumsfeld and Celikgogus v. Rumsfeld<br />
Civil suits against Donald Rumsfeld and others responsible <strong>for</strong><br />
the detention, torture and mistreatment of, in total, nine men<br />
illegally detained in Guantánamo <strong>for</strong> years, including two men<br />
detained <strong>for</strong> more than four years and released years after being<br />
classified as non-enemy combatants<br />
Zalita v. Bush<br />
The first legal challenge brought by a Guantánamo detainee to<br />
an intended transfer to his native country, Libya, where he would<br />
likely face torture or execution<br />
2000<br />
Doe v. Karadzic<br />
Won a $4.5 billion judgment against Bosnian-Serb leader<br />
Radovan Karadzic <strong>for</strong> genocide, war crimes and crimes against<br />
humanity. The 1995 Second Circuit decision in this case recognized<br />
that rape and sexual violence constitute torture and<br />
genocide and laid the groundwork <strong>for</strong> cases against non-state<br />
actors, including multinational corporations.<br />
2001<br />
Kiareldeen v. Reno<br />
Challenged the use<br />
of secret evidence in<br />
deportation trials.
Abdallah El-Marqodi v. Bush<br />
Abdessalam v. Bush<br />
Abdullah v. Bush<br />
Aboassy v. Bush<br />
Ahmed “Doe” v. Bush<br />
Ahmed v. Bush<br />
Akhouzada v. Bush<br />
Akhtiar v. Bush<br />
Al Bahooth v. Bush<br />
Al Darby v. Bush<br />
Al Halmandy v. Bush<br />
Al Hawary v. Bush<br />
Al Nakheelan v. Bush<br />
Al Rashaidan v. Bush<br />
Al Salami v. Bush<br />
Al Sharbi v. Bush<br />
Al Subaie v. Bush<br />
Al Wirghi v. Bush<br />
Al Yafie v. Bush<br />
Al-Asadi v. Bush<br />
Al-Badah v. Bush<br />
Al-Baidany v. Bush<br />
Albkri v. Bush<br />
Al-Delebany v. Bush<br />
Al-Gatele v. Bush<br />
Alghatani v. Bush<br />
Al-Ghizzawi v. Bush<br />
Alhag v. Bush<br />
Alhami v. Bush<br />
Al-Harbi, Ghanim-Abdulrahman<br />
v. Bush<br />
Al-Harbi, Mazin Salih v. Bush<br />
Al-Hela v. Bush<br />
Ali Ahmed v. Bush<br />
Ali Al Jayf v. Bush<br />
Alkhemisi v. Bush<br />
Al-Maliki v. Bush<br />
Almerfedi v. Bush<br />
Al-Mithali v. Bush<br />
2003<br />
Daniels v. City of New York<br />
Challenged racial profiling and<br />
<strong>for</strong>ced the notorious NYPD Street<br />
Crime Unit to disband and established<br />
ongoing montioring by <strong>CCR</strong><br />
and the courts.<br />
Guantánamo Habeas Cases<br />
Since <strong>CCR</strong>’s Supreme Court victory in Rasul v. Bush in 2004, over 200 habeas corpus petitions have been filed on behalf of<br />
Guantánamo detainees by well over a hundred private law firms, law school clinics, and other legal organizations. <strong>CCR</strong> has been<br />
a key coordinator of this tremendous ef<strong>for</strong>t and is co-counsel on the majority of cases filed. Below and on the facing page are the<br />
Guantánamo cases that <strong>CCR</strong> is co-counsel on this year.<br />
Almjrd v. Bush<br />
Al-Mudafari v. Bush<br />
Almurbati v. Bush<br />
Al-Oshan v. Bush<br />
Al-Rubaish v. Bush<br />
Al-Rubaish v. Bush<br />
Al-Shabany v. Rumsfeld<br />
Al-Shimrani v. Bush<br />
Al-Sopai v. Bush<br />
Al-Zarnouqi v. Bush<br />
Amin v. Bush<br />
Anam v. Bush<br />
Attash v. Bush<br />
Awad v. Bush<br />
Aweda v. Bush<br />
Aziz, Abu Abdul v. Bush<br />
Aziz, Ahamed Abdul v. Bush<br />
Bacha v. Bush<br />
Batarfi v. Bush<br />
Battayav v. Bush<br />
Begg v. Bush<br />
Bin Amir v. Bush<br />
Dhiab v. Bush<br />
Edries v. Bush<br />
El-Banna v. Bush<br />
Elisher v. Bush<br />
Gamil v. Bush<br />
Gerab Alsaaei v. Bush<br />
Ghanem v. Bush<br />
Ghazy v. Bush<br />
Gul v. Bush<br />
Habib v. Bush<br />
Hakmat v. Bush<br />
Haleem v. Bush<br />
Hamoodah v. Bush<br />
Hamoud v. Bush<br />
Hatim v. Bush<br />
Hentif v. Bush<br />
Hussein v. Bush<br />
2004<br />
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (amicus)<br />
Challenged the denial of habeas corpus to<br />
an American citizen, Yaser Hamdi, in the<br />
Supreme Court; won a decision restoring<br />
Hamdi’s right to contest his detention. He<br />
was subsequently released.<br />
Isamattulah v. Bush<br />
Kabir v. Bush<br />
Khalid v. Bush<br />
Khalifh v. Bush<br />
Khan, Bulbas v. Bush<br />
Khandan v. Bush<br />
Kiyemba v. Bush<br />
Lal v. Bush<br />
Magram v. Bush<br />
Mamet, Edham v. Bush<br />
Mammar v. Bush<br />
Maqaleh v. Rumsfeld<br />
Mohammed v. Bush<br />
Mohammon v. Bush<br />
Mokit v. Bush<br />
Moosa v. Bush<br />
Muhammed v. Bush<br />
Mustaph v. Bush<br />
Nabil v. Bush<br />
Naseem v. Bush<br />
Naseer v. Bush<br />
Odah v. Bush<br />
Othman v. Bush<br />
Qasim v. Bush<br />
Qassim v. Bush<br />
Qayed v. Bush<br />
Rabbani v. Bush<br />
Rahmattullah v. Bush<br />
Rammi v. Bush<br />
Rasul v. Rumsfeld<br />
Rasul v. Bush<br />
Razak v. Bush<br />
Razakah v. Bush<br />
Rimi v. Bush<br />
Ruzatullah v. Rumsfeld<br />
Saib v. Bush<br />
Said v. Bush<br />
Salahi al. v. Bush<br />
Saleh v. Bush<br />
Shafiq v. Bush<br />
Suliman v. Bush<br />
Taher v. Bush<br />
Thabid v. Bush<br />
Toukh v. Bush<br />
Wasim v. Bush<br />
Rasul v. Bush<br />
In February 2002, shortly after the first detainees were<br />
sent to Guantánamo, <strong>CCR</strong> filed this habeas corpus petition<br />
challenging the U.S. government’s practice of holding <strong>for</strong>eign<br />
nationals in indefinite detention; without charges, trials or<br />
counsel. Over the Bush administration’s objections, the<br />
Supreme Court heard the case and in June 2004 ruled<br />
that detainees have access to U.S. courts to challenge the<br />
detention and treatment in U.S. custody.<br />
Following the ruling, <strong>CCR</strong> quickly organized a network of<br />
attorneys to represent other Guantánamo detainees in<br />
habeas proceedings. On August 30, 2004, <strong>CCR</strong> attorney<br />
Gitanjali Gutierrez became the first civilian lawyer allowed<br />
into Guantánamo.<br />
2004<br />
Rasul v. Bush<br />
Won a Supreme Court decision establishing<br />
U.S. courts’ jurisdiction over Guantánamo Bay<br />
detainees and affirming detainees’ right to<br />
habeas corpus review.<br />
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Case Index (continued)<br />
The <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Constitutional</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> has many ongoing cases be<strong>for</strong>e state, federal and international courts every year.<br />
Below is a list of cases and amicus briefs that we litigated or filed during the past year. In addition to these, we have been<br />
developing numerous new cases as well as working closely with progressive attorneys and other organizations on a host<br />
of constitutional and human rights issues.<br />
Rendition & Ghost<br />
Detention<br />
Arar v. Ashcroft<br />
Suing Ashcroft, Mueller and other U.S.<br />
officials <strong>for</strong> sending Canadian citizen<br />
Maher Arar to Syria to be tortured under<br />
a policy of “extraordinary rendition”<br />
Amnesty International, <strong>CCR</strong>, et al. v. CIA,<br />
Department of Defense, et al.<br />
Freedom of In<strong>for</strong>mation Act (FOIA)<br />
lawsuit seeking in<strong>for</strong>mation about ‘disappeared’<br />
detainees, including those at CIA<br />
‘ghost’ sites and unregistered prisoners<br />
ACLU, <strong>CCR</strong>, et al. v. Department<br />
of Defense<br />
FOIA lawsuit charging that government<br />
agencies illegally withheld records sought<br />
by <strong>CCR</strong> concerning the abuse of detainees<br />
in American military custody<br />
Cuba Travel Embargo<br />
Sanders v. Snow, et al.<br />
Challenging the Treasury Department’s<br />
violation of Fifth Amendment rights<br />
by penalizing individuals <strong>for</strong> not filling<br />
out a questionnaire regarding travel<br />
to Cuba when doing so could result in<br />
self-incriminating statements<br />
U.S. v. Harrell<br />
U.S. v. Heslop<br />
U.S. v. Kennelly<br />
U.S. v. Rawson<br />
Legal defense of people in penalty<br />
proceedings due to alleged violation of<br />
the Cuba travel embargo (23 additional<br />
cases were terminated in our clients’ favor<br />
this year)<br />
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International Law &<br />
Accountability<br />
Complaint to German Federal Prosecutor<br />
re: Culpability of U.S. Officials in Abu<br />
Ghraib & Guantánamo Torture<br />
Petition submitted to the German Prosecutor<br />
requesting an investigation into the<br />
responsibility of civilian and military U.S.<br />
officials <strong>for</strong> war crimes and torture under<br />
the principle of “universal jurisdiction”<br />
Doe v. Constant<br />
Won a $19 million judgment against<br />
Emmanuel ‘Toto’ Constant, leader of the<br />
right-wing organization FRAPH in Haiti<br />
<strong>for</strong> gross human rights violations<br />
Matar, et al. v. Dichter<br />
Suing Israeli official <strong>for</strong> a “targeted assassination”<br />
in Gaza that killed eight children<br />
and seven adults, and injured more than<br />
150 civilians<br />
Belhas, et al. v. Ya’alon<br />
Class action against <strong>for</strong>mer Israeli official<br />
responsible <strong>for</strong> the 1996 shelling of a UN<br />
compound in Qana, Lebanon that killed<br />
over 100 civilians most of whom were<br />
women and children<br />
Blake v. Carbone (amicus)<br />
Second Circuit amicus brief arguing<br />
international law places limits on government’s<br />
power to deport individuals when<br />
doing so would break up families<br />
2004<br />
Doe v. Unocal<br />
Historic settlement reached with Unocal in case that alleged<br />
corporate complicity in human rights violations in Burma.<br />
Previous landmark rulings in this case established that companies<br />
can be sued in U.S. courts <strong>for</strong> human rights violations<br />
such as <strong>for</strong>ced labor and rape.<br />
Corporate Human<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> Abuse<br />
Vietnam Association <strong>for</strong> Victims of Agent<br />
Orange/Dioxin, et al. v. Dow Chemical,<br />
et al. (amicus)<br />
Lawsuit charging chemical companies<br />
with knowingly providing the U.S.<br />
government with a poisonous agent to<br />
be sprayed on civilians<br />
Corrie, et al. v. Caterpillar, Inc.<br />
Suing Caterpillar, Inc. <strong>for</strong> selling D9<br />
bulldozers to the Israel Defense Forces,<br />
knowing they would be used to destroy<br />
homes and injure or kill the inhabitants<br />
Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum<br />
Wiwa v. Anderson<br />
Wiwa v. Shell Petroleum Development<br />
Company<br />
Relatives of murdered leaders and activists<br />
in Nigeria suing <strong>for</strong> human rights abuses<br />
against the Ogoni people in Nigeria<br />
Bowoto v. Chevron<br />
Suing Chevron <strong>for</strong> its involvement in<br />
three machine-gun attacks on unarmed<br />
environmental protestors in Nigeria in<br />
1998 and 1999<br />
Saleh v. Titan<br />
Suing Titan Corporation and CACI International<br />
<strong>for</strong> conspiring with U.S. officials<br />
to humiliate, torture and abuse people in<br />
U.S. custody in Iraq<br />
The Presbyterian Church of Sudan, et al.<br />
v. Talisman Energy, Inc. (amicus)<br />
Suing a Canadian company <strong>for</strong> aiding<br />
and abetting human rights violations,<br />
including war crimes, while engaged in<br />
oil operations in southern Sudan<br />
2004<br />
Wilkinson v. Austin<br />
Ruled the prisoners cannot be placed or indefinitely<br />
detained in solitary confinement, at a maximum<br />
security prison in Ohio, without due process.
Racial, Gender<br />
and Economic Justice<br />
Vulcan Society v. City of New York<br />
Challenging discriminatory hiring practices<br />
of the NYC Fire Department on behalf<br />
of an association of Black firefighters and<br />
individual class representatives<br />
Gulino v. The Board of Education of the<br />
City of New York and the New York State<br />
Education Department<br />
Class action on behalf of public school<br />
teachers of color who are challenging the<br />
use of discriminatory tests and licensing<br />
rules<br />
Daniels, et al. v. City of New York<br />
Class action challenged racial profiling<br />
and the ‘stop-and-frisk’ practices of the<br />
notorious NYPD Street Crimes Unit<br />
Tummino, et al. v. von Eschenbach<br />
Representing feminist activists suing the<br />
FDA <strong>for</strong> failure to approve the morningafter<br />
pill as an over-the-counter drug<br />
available to women of all ages<br />
Harrington v. NY Metropolitan<br />
Transit Authority<br />
Defending the religious rights of Sikh<br />
transit workers to wear turbans at work<br />
Attacks on Immigrants<br />
Turkmen v. Ashcroft<br />
Fighting unlawful post 9/11 arrest, mass<br />
detention and abusive treatment of South<br />
Asian, Arab and Muslim non-citizens<br />
In the Matters of Hamide and Shehadeh<br />
Ended 20-year-long deportation proceedings<br />
against, members of the “LA8”,<br />
political activists who were lawfully<br />
engaged in protected First Amendment<br />
advocacy on behalf of Palestinians.<br />
2006<br />
Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (amicus)<br />
Challenged Military Commissions; resulted in<br />
the Supreme Court decision affirming the application<br />
of Geneva Convention protocols to trials<br />
of terrorism suspects.<br />
Prison Justice<br />
Walton v. New York State Department of<br />
Correctional Services and MCI/Verizon<br />
Challenging NYSDOCS’ monopoly<br />
telephone contract with MCI/Verizon,<br />
which <strong>for</strong>ces family members to pay<br />
exorbitant phone rates to speak with their<br />
loved ones in prison<br />
Byrd v. Goord<br />
Fighting against exploitative telephone<br />
rates and monopoly contracts that<br />
adversely affect the ability of prisoners’<br />
families to remain in contact<br />
FCC Rule Making Petition<br />
Petitioning the FCC to regulate interstate<br />
prison telephone calls to ensure fair and<br />
reasonable rates <strong>for</strong> prisoners and their<br />
families<br />
Wilkinson v. Austin<br />
Working to en<strong>for</strong>ce minimum due<br />
process requirements <strong>for</strong> prisoners held<br />
in extended solitary confinement at a<br />
maximum security prison in Ohio.<br />
Surveillance<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> v. Bush<br />
Challenging NSA warrantless domestic<br />
electronic surveillance, asserting that it<br />
violates FISA and the First and Fourth<br />
Amendments<br />
Wilner, et al. v. NSA, et al.<br />
FOIA requests to determine if the<br />
government has engaged in warrantless<br />
wiretapping of <strong>CCR</strong> attorneys and<br />
Guantánamo habeas counsel<br />
Hepting v. AT&T (amicus)<br />
Amicus brief arguing <strong>for</strong> release of allegedly<br />
trade secret whistleblower documents<br />
disclosing AT&T’s involvement with NSA<br />
data mining and surveillance program<br />
Material Support<br />
Humanitarian Law Project v. Gonzales<br />
Humanitarian Law Project v. Department<br />
of the Treasury<br />
First and Fifth Amendment challenges to<br />
the “material support” statute and related<br />
schemes that punish association with<br />
<strong>for</strong>eign organizations placed on terrorism<br />
lists<br />
Attacks on Dissent<br />
Bandele v. City of New York<br />
Representing members of the Malcolm X<br />
Grassroots Movement who were arrested<br />
while filming NYPD officers as part of a<br />
CopWatch program<br />
Killmon, et al. v. City of Miami<br />
Challenge to mass arrests and police<br />
misconduct during the Free Trade of the<br />
Americas meeting in Miami, FL<br />
Kunstler v. NY<br />
Suing the NYPD on behalf of protestors<br />
who were illegally arrested during an<br />
anti-war rally on April 7, 2003 and<br />
detained <strong>for</strong> excessively long periods<br />
of time<br />
Florida Alliance <strong>for</strong> Retired Americans,<br />
et al. v. City of Fort Lauderdale<br />
Successful challenge to laws restricting<br />
the First Amendment rights of political<br />
activists in Florida<br />
Ongoing<br />
The <strong>CCR</strong> cases throughout this timeline and on our current<br />
case list above, illustrate that we can never take <strong>for</strong> granted<br />
the hard-won victories of the past. We have decades of work<br />
ahead of us to repair the harm done to our democratic and<br />
legal systems over the past few years. <strong>CCR</strong> will continue to be<br />
on the <strong>for</strong>efront of legal thinking as we look towards the future.<br />
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Friends & Allies<br />
Over the past year, the <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Constitutional</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> has worked with hundreds of attorneys, legal organizations, private law firms<br />
and activists on our cases and campaigns. <strong>CCR</strong> extends its deepest appreciation <strong>for</strong> all they have done as volunteer attorneys, cooperating<br />
attorneys, co-counsel and colleagues in the struggle <strong>for</strong> justice.<br />
100 Blacks in Law<br />
En<strong>for</strong>cement Who Care<br />
William J. Aceves<br />
ACLU National Legal Dept<br />
ACLU of Florida<br />
ACLU of Southern Cali<strong>for</strong>nia<br />
Craig Acorn<br />
Fahd Ahmed<br />
Shereef Hadi Akeel<br />
Akeel & Valentine P.C.<br />
Prof. Susan Akram<br />
Iyad Alami<br />
Al-Awda NY<br />
Ashlee Albies<br />
Barbara Allan<br />
Karima Amin<br />
Amnesty International<br />
Arts <strong>for</strong> Peace (New Paltz)<br />
Ahilan Arulanantham<br />
Assemble 4 <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Hon. Jeffrion Aubry<br />
Audre Lorde Project<br />
Michael Avery<br />
Môjgone Azemun<br />
Baach Robinson &<br />
Lewis PLLC<br />
Rosemary Bachvarova<br />
Bailey House<br />
David Baluarte<br />
Denise Barnes<br />
Raquel Batista<br />
BAYAN USA<br />
Ann Beeson<br />
Myron Beldock<br />
Beldock, Levine &<br />
Hoffman LLP<br />
Bellevue/NYU Program <strong>for</strong><br />
Survivors of Torture<br />
Medea Benjamin<br />
Phyllis Bennis<br />
Almudena Bernabeu<br />
Antoine Bernard<br />
Frida Berrigan<br />
Chandra Bhatnagar<br />
Caroline Bettinger-López<br />
Mamoni Bhattacharyya<br />
Rathen Blau<br />
Robert Bloom<br />
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Douglas Bloom<br />
Carolyn Patty Blum<br />
Boston Univ Sch of Law<br />
Locke Bowman<br />
Bill Bowring<br />
Bob Boyle<br />
Brecht Forum<br />
Bridge Street AWME Church<br />
Matt Brinckerhoff<br />
Judith Brink<br />
Ben Brofman<br />
Bronx Defenders<br />
Bronx HIV Care Network<br />
Brotherhood/Sister Sol<br />
Tamir Z. Brown<br />
Jessica Buchanan<br />
Allan Buchman<br />
Susan Burke<br />
Burke O’Neil LLC<br />
Bush is Over! Campaign<br />
Butler Rubin Saltarelli &<br />
Boyd LLP<br />
CAAAV: Organizing<br />
Asian Communities<br />
Socrates Caba<br />
Gemma Calvet<br />
Susan Cameron<br />
Campaign to Promote<br />
Equitable Telephone<br />
Charges (ETC)<br />
Prof Arturo Carillo<br />
Juan Cartagena<br />
Karl Carter<br />
Michael Cates<br />
Catholic Worker Movement<br />
<strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> Community<br />
Alternatives<br />
<strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> Justice &<br />
Accountability (CJA)<br />
<strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> Law &<br />
Social Justice<br />
<strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> Reproductive <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky<br />
Miya Chen<br />
Paul Chevigny<br />
Judith Brown Chomsky<br />
Cindy Chupack<br />
Tink Chupack-Wallach<br />
Citizens United <strong>for</strong> Rehabilitation<br />
of Errants - New York<br />
Chapter (CURE-NY)<br />
Melanca D. Clark<br />
Rosa Clemente<br />
Coalition <strong>for</strong> Parole<br />
Restoration (CPR)<br />
Coalition <strong>for</strong> Women Prisoners<br />
Kendrick Cobb<br />
Code Pink<br />
Tim Coffey<br />
David Cole<br />
Alison Coleman<br />
Columbia Univ Sch of Law<br />
Human <strong>Rights</strong> Institute<br />
Marie-Agnes Combesque<br />
Community Service Society<br />
Coney Island Ave. Project<br />
Kaitlin Cordes<br />
Jesse Corradi<br />
Correctional Association<br />
Council on American-Islamic<br />
Relations New York Chapter<br />
(CAIR-NY)<br />
Courtney Counts<br />
Covington & Burling<br />
Jeremy Cowan<br />
Jennifer Cowan<br />
Critical Resistance<br />
Rosalina Crotty<br />
Catherine Crump<br />
Culture Project<br />
Lauren Cumbia<br />
Elizabeth Cumming<br />
Curtis Mallet-Prevost, Colt &<br />
Mosle<br />
Rudy and Betty Cypser<br />
Jamil Dakwar<br />
Matt Daloisio<br />
Erin Darling<br />
Neena Das<br />
Rev. Dr. Herbert Daughtry<br />
Ben Davis<br />
Yasmin Davis<br />
Rosalba Davis<br />
Adam Day<br />
Vanessa Stich De Simone<br />
Kyle De Young<br />
Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP<br />
Sharon Delshad<br />
Desis Rising Up and Moving<br />
(DRUM)<br />
Detention Watch Network<br />
Wanda Best Deveaux<br />
Anthony DiCaprio<br />
Karen Dippold<br />
DLA Piper U.S. LLP<br />
Domestic Workers United<br />
Richard Dorn<br />
Drop the Rock<br />
Drug Policy Alliance<br />
Drum Major Institute<br />
Bani Duggal<br />
Dolina Duzant<br />
Earth<strong>Rights</strong> International<br />
(ERI)<br />
Edge of Justice<br />
Matt Eisenbrandt<br />
Edward J. Elder<br />
Eddie Ellis<br />
Sally El-Sadek<br />
Emery, Celli, Brinckerhoff &<br />
Abady LLP<br />
Eve Ensler<br />
Exodus Transitional<br />
Community<br />
Fabulous Independent<br />
Educated Radicals <strong>for</strong><br />
Community Empowerment<br />
(FIERCE!)<br />
Richard Falk<br />
Families <strong>for</strong> Freedom<br />
Families United <strong>for</strong> Racial<br />
and Economic Equality<br />
(FUREE)<br />
Daphne Farganis<br />
Muhammad Faridi<br />
Rosemary Faulkner<br />
Susan Feathers<br />
Moira Feeney<br />
Maria Ferrin<br />
Walter Fields<br />
Robert F. Fink<br />
Cindy Flowers<br />
Anthony Fonseca<br />
Tina Monshipour Foster
Judith Chomsky has been a donor to <strong>CCR</strong> and a cooperating attorney on international<br />
human rights cases since the early 1990s when she was introduced to the <strong>Center</strong> by her friend,<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> Board member Abdeen Jabara. In particular, Judith was an integral part of the Doe v. Unocal<br />
case that rein<strong>for</strong>ced the use of international law and the ATS, pioneered by <strong>CCR</strong>, to hold multinational<br />
corporations responsible <strong>for</strong> human rights violations.<br />
French League <strong>for</strong><br />
Human <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Jose Louis Fuentes<br />
Elizabeth Gaines<br />
Robert Gangi<br />
Theresa Gheen<br />
Gibbons P.C.<br />
Joan Gibbs<br />
Alex Gibney<br />
Cathe Giffuni<br />
John Gilmore<br />
Leah Gitter<br />
Curt Goering<br />
Lisa Gonzalez<br />
Melissa Goodman<br />
William Goodman<br />
Goodman & Hurwitz<br />
Amanda Gourdine<br />
Michael Gramer<br />
Ashley Grant<br />
Kate Greenwood<br />
Lucy Greer<br />
Colin Greer<br />
Carmine Grimaldi<br />
Theo Grzegorczyk<br />
Guerilla Tactics Media<br />
Haiti Support Network<br />
Harlem Tenants Council<br />
Hastings International<br />
and Comparative<br />
Law Review<br />
Mona Hayat<br />
Joseph Hayden<br />
Anne K. Heidel<br />
Rebecca Heinegg<br />
Simon Heller<br />
Rick Herz<br />
Nellie Hester Bailey<br />
Rev. Diane Hodges<br />
Paul Hoffman<br />
Sarah Hogarth<br />
Rue Hogarth<br />
Jeff Hogue<br />
Tedd Hope<br />
Leah Horowitz<br />
Rebekah Horowitz<br />
Scott Horton<br />
Jane Huckerby<br />
Betsy Iger<br />
Arthur Iger<br />
Institute <strong>for</strong> the Black World<br />
21st Century<br />
Institute <strong>for</strong> Urban Education<br />
at the New School<br />
Interfaith Coalition of<br />
Advocates <strong>for</strong> Reentry<br />
and Employment (ICARE)<br />
International Action <strong>Center</strong><br />
International Federation <strong>for</strong><br />
Human <strong>Rights</strong> (FIDH)<br />
International Justice Network<br />
International Solidarity<br />
Movement<br />
Renee Isely<br />
Islamic Circle of North<br />
America (ICNA)<br />
Kim Ives<br />
Abdeen Jabara<br />
Jameel Jaffer<br />
Avi Jaisinghani<br />
Jericho Movement<br />
Mona Jimenez<br />
Kenn John<br />
Cantrell Jones<br />
Judson Memorial Church<br />
Justice Committee<br />
Justice Works Community<br />
Wolfgang Kaleck<br />
Nicholas Kapustinsky<br />
Subhash Kateel<br />
Cheryl Kates<br />
Eliot Katz<br />
Tamara Kempf<br />
Dima Khalidi<br />
Bobby Khan<br />
Yvonne and Jasmine Killebrew<br />
Jane Kim<br />
James Klimaski<br />
Klimaski & Associates<br />
Dan Klotz<br />
Tamar Kraft-Stolar<br />
Ruth Kreinik<br />
Frank Krogh<br />
Patricia Krueger<br />
Kunstler Fund <strong>for</strong><br />
Racial Justice<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> Spotlight<br />
“My work with <strong>CCR</strong> is about as intellectually interesting as<br />
something can be. I feel personally committed to the politics<br />
of these cases, particularly the corporate responsibility cases.<br />
If only the surrogates are held responsible there’ll always be<br />
another petit dictator there to take their place. It’s only when<br />
you tie the bad behavior in the developing world back to board<br />
rooms in the United States that it puts pressure on the political system. <strong>CCR</strong>’s work is<br />
especially important to me because the clients are amazing, courageous, generous and<br />
fun to meet. One of the great gifts of doing <strong>CCR</strong> work is getting to know these people.”<br />
Vivien Labaton<br />
Ray LaForrest<br />
LAS Prisoners <strong>Rights</strong> Project<br />
Janet Lee<br />
David Lerner<br />
Richard Levy<br />
Levy Ratner, LP<br />
Levy, Phillips &<br />
Konigsberg, LLP<br />
Elizabeth Lewis<br />
Megan Lewis<br />
Thomas Lindsay<br />
Jules Lobel<br />
Jovita Lopez<br />
Dana Lossia<br />
Errol Louis<br />
Lawrence S. Lustberg<br />
Lyrics To Go<br />
MacArthur Justice <strong>Center</strong>,<br />
Univ of Chicago Law Sch<br />
Antoine Madelin<br />
Sara Mader<br />
Joan Magoolaghan<br />
Moshe S. Maimon<br />
Malcolm X Grassroots<br />
Movement (MXGM)<br />
Arthur Malkin<br />
Joseph Margulies<br />
Randall Marshall<br />
Glenn Martin<br />
Ed Mast<br />
Monami Maulik<br />
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Friends & Allies (continued)<br />
Deepinder Mayell<br />
Judith McDaniel<br />
Stanley McDermott III<br />
Demi McGuire<br />
Shannon McNulty<br />
Pinky Mehta<br />
Carl Messineo<br />
Hope Metcalf<br />
Scott Michelman<br />
Jeanne Mirer<br />
Jenny Montoya-Tansey<br />
Jonathan Moore<br />
Major Dan Mori<br />
Morning-After Pill Conspiracy<br />
C. Zawadi Morris<br />
Morrison & Foerster<br />
Eric Muller<br />
Rafael Mutis<br />
Kotaro Nakai<br />
National Hip Hop Political<br />
Convention<br />
National HIRE Network<br />
National Lawyers Guild<br />
National Lawyers Guild -<br />
Mass Defense Committee<br />
National Lawyers Guild -<br />
NYC Chapter<br />
Neighborhood Defender<br />
Service of Harlem (NDSH)<br />
Merry Neisner<br />
Alice Nelson<br />
Sarah Netburn<br />
New York City AIDS Housing<br />
Network (NYCAHN)<br />
New York Coalition to Expand<br />
Voting <strong>Rights</strong><br />
New York Immigration<br />
Coalition<br />
New York Society <strong>for</strong> Ethical<br />
Culture<br />
NJ Peace Action<br />
NJ Solidarity - Activists <strong>for</strong> the<br />
Liberation of Palestine<br />
Nodutdol<br />
Gerald Norlander<br />
NY Metro Religious<br />
Campaign Against Torture<br />
NY Task<strong>for</strong>ce on Political<br />
Prisoners<br />
NYS Defenders Association<br />
NYU <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> Human<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> & Global Justice<br />
Alexandra Pomeon O’Neill<br />
Ricky and Cheri O’Donoghue<br />
Michael O’Loughlin<br />
Barbara Olshansky<br />
40<br />
Yoko Ono<br />
Tom Pacheco<br />
Sailaja Paidipaty<br />
Palestine Solidarity<br />
Committee - Seattle Chapter<br />
Palestinian <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong><br />
Human <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Constantina Papageorgiou<br />
Kathy Parker<br />
Partnership <strong>for</strong> Civil Justice<br />
Jordan Paust<br />
Peoples’ Justice<br />
Francesca Perkins<br />
Kay Perry<br />
C. William Phillips<br />
Steven J. Phillips<br />
Picture the Homeless<br />
Eileen Platt<br />
Miriam Pollet<br />
Deborah Popowski<br />
Michael Poulshock<br />
Prison Families Anonymous<br />
Prison Families Community<br />
Forum (PFCF)<br />
Prison Families of<br />
New York, Inc.<br />
Prison Moratorium Project<br />
Prisoner Re-Entry Institute<br />
Puffin Foundation<br />
Jonathan H. Pyle<br />
Queers <strong>for</strong> Economic Justice<br />
Nadia Qurashi<br />
Rachel Corrie Foundation<br />
Ellen Range<br />
Merle Ratner<br />
Ratner, DiCaprio &<br />
Chomsky LLP<br />
Redstockings of the Women’s<br />
Liberation Movement<br />
Alex Reinert<br />
Republican Attorney’s Association<br />
(RAV – Germany)<br />
Resistance in Brooklyn<br />
Kate Rhee<br />
Ann Richardson<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> <strong>for</strong> Imprisoned People<br />
with Psychiatric Disabilities<br />
(RIPPD)<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> Working Group<br />
Riptide Communications<br />
Riverside Church<br />
Wayne Roberts<br />
Marion Rodriguez<br />
Ronald A. Peterson Law Clinic<br />
Rossana Rosado<br />
Alan Rosenthal<br />
Robert Ross<br />
Shannon Rozner<br />
Kate Rubin<br />
James Rubin<br />
Visuvananathan<br />
Rudrakumaran<br />
Safe Streets/Strong<br />
Communities<br />
Radhika Sainath<br />
Rahul Saksena<br />
Zeina Salam<br />
Romeo Sanchez<br />
Susan Sarandon<br />
Meg Satterthwaite<br />
Katie Savin<br />
Sadat Sayeed<br />
Gabriel Sayegh<br />
Scheurer & Hardy P.C.<br />
Schomburg <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong><br />
Research in Black Culture<br />
Seattle Univ Sch of Law<br />
Seven Neighborhood Action<br />
Partnership (SNAP)<br />
Katie Schwartzman<br />
Naureen Shah<br />
Aarti Shahani<br />
Julie Shelton<br />
Mara Shlackman<br />
Reggie Shu<strong>for</strong>d<br />
Sikh Coalition<br />
Esmeralda Simmons<br />
Marco Simons<br />
Ayana Simus<br />
Amardeep Singh<br />
Amrit Singh<br />
Lee, Joanne & Jessica Sinovoi<br />
Gwynne L. Skinner<br />
Claudia Slovinsky<br />
Prof. Ronald C. Slye<br />
Alexandra Houston Smith<br />
Carol Sobel<br />
Joshua A. Sohn<br />
Jennifer Sokoler<br />
Sonnenschein, Nath &<br />
Rosenthal<br />
Cynthia Soohoo<br />
Raji Sourani<br />
Southern Legal Counsel<br />
Elizabeth Sperber<br />
Clive Staf<strong>for</strong>d-Smith<br />
Nancy Stearns<br />
Irene Steiner<br />
Beth Stephens<br />
Sarah J. Sterken<br />
Jonathan Stonbely<br />
David Stovall<br />
Nan Strauss<br />
Street Smart Movement<br />
Jeanne Sulzer<br />
David Swanson<br />
Keiko Takayama<br />
Vicky Tartter<br />
Mateo Taussig<br />
RJ Thompson<br />
Margaret Tobin<br />
Katherine Toomey<br />
Gabriel Torres Rivera<br />
Torture Abolition and<br />
Survivors Support Coalition<br />
(TASSC)<br />
Christine Tramantano<br />
Carmen Trotta<br />
United <strong>for</strong> Peace & Justice<br />
Univ of Pennsylvania Law Sch<br />
Urban Justice <strong>Center</strong><br />
Theo Van Boven<br />
Marc Van Der Hout<br />
Karla Vargas<br />
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard<br />
Rima Vesely-Flad<br />
Vietnam Agent Orange Relief<br />
& Responsibility Campaign<br />
Teresa Vitello<br />
Vulcan Society<br />
Carole Wagner<br />
Ian Wallach<br />
Rae Walton<br />
Mariann Meier Wang<br />
War Resisters League<br />
Sean Ward<br />
Evelyn Warren<br />
Michael Warren<br />
Ed Wasserman<br />
Brian Weeks<br />
Len Weinglass<br />
Peter Weiss<br />
Maggie Williams<br />
An-Tuan Williams<br />
WilmerHale<br />
John Wilson<br />
Michael Winger<br />
Witness Against Torture<br />
Women’s Liberation Birth<br />
Control Project<br />
Devyn Wray-Scriven<br />
Ron Yerxa<br />
Haeyoung Yoon<br />
Milton Zelermeyer<br />
Dorothy M. Zellner<br />
Kimberly Zelnick
Guantánamo Habeas Counsel<br />
This year, <strong>CCR</strong>’s Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative worked with over 500 lawyers and legal workers at over 100 law firms, law<br />
school clinics and other legal organizations who have filed habeas corpus petitions on behalf of Guantánamo detainees. (see pages<br />
34-35 of this report <strong>for</strong> a list of cases and a description of the project) We thank each and every one of these brave individuals and<br />
organizations <strong>for</strong> their unflagging commitment to representing their clients at Guantánamo Bay.<br />
Douglas Abbott<br />
Leslie Abrams<br />
Karen Abravanel<br />
Muneer Ahmad<br />
Shireen Ahmed<br />
Elizabeth K. Ainslie<br />
Rafik Aldina<br />
Allen & Overy LLP<br />
Ismail Alsheik<br />
Alston & Bird<br />
Emmanuel Altit<br />
Sarah Altschuller<br />
American Univ. Washington<br />
College of Law International<br />
Human <strong>Rights</strong> Clinic<br />
Keri Anderson<br />
John P. Anderson<br />
Zerai Araya<br />
Bridget Arimond<br />
Enrique Armijo<br />
Elizabeth Arora<br />
Jehan Aslam<br />
Muneeza Aumir<br />
Baher Azmy<br />
Baach Robinson, &<br />
Lewis, PLLC<br />
Matthew Babcock<br />
Rick D. Bailey<br />
Hissan Bajwa<br />
Baker & McKenzie LLP<br />
Susan Baker Manning<br />
David Baluarte<br />
Scott S. Barker<br />
James W. Beane Jr.<br />
Reagan Beck<br />
Douglas J. Behr<br />
Jonathan S. Bender<br />
Jeff Berger<br />
Ryan T. Bergsieker<br />
Joseph Berman<br />
Mark Berman<br />
Berman & Dowell<br />
Catherine Bernard<br />
David Berz<br />
Bingham McCutchen LLP<br />
Birnberg Pierce & Partners<br />
Jonathan Blackman<br />
Keith Blackman<br />
Ronald Blum<br />
Steven M. Bocknek<br />
Emmet Bondurant<br />
Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore<br />
Louis Bonilla<br />
Guly K. Bositova<br />
Dwight Bostwick<br />
David Brad<strong>for</strong>d<br />
Elizabeth Braverman<br />
Brennan <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> Justice at<br />
NYU School of Law<br />
Thomas Brett<br />
Patricia Bronte<br />
Brooklyn Law School<br />
Karma Brown<br />
Carol Elder Bruce<br />
Lauren Brunswick<br />
Bryan K. Bullock<br />
Edmund Burke<br />
Burke, McPheeters, Bordner,<br />
& Estes<br />
Burns & Levinson, LLP<br />
Antony S. Burt<br />
Mona L. Burton<br />
G. Brian Busey<br />
Christine Bustany<br />
Kelly A. Cameron<br />
Angela Campbell<br />
Charles Carpenter<br />
Bernard J. Casey<br />
Doug Cassel<br />
Anne J. Castle<br />
D. Mark Cave<br />
Anna Cayton-Holland<br />
<strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> International<br />
Human <strong>Rights</strong><br />
<strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> Justice and International<br />
Law, Northwestern<br />
University School of Law<br />
Christopher Chang<br />
Erwin Chemerinsky<br />
Pamela Chepiga<br />
Jennifer Ching<br />
Adam Chiss<br />
Judith Chomsky<br />
Louise Christian<br />
Anthony M. Clark<br />
George M. Clarke<br />
Cleary Gottlieb Steen &<br />
Hamilton LLP<br />
Clif<strong>for</strong>d Chance, LLP<br />
Rachel G. Clingham<br />
Lin<strong>for</strong>d Coates<br />
Jerry Cohen<br />
James Cohen<br />
Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld &<br />
Toll, PLLC<br />
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan<br />
Jeffrey Colman<br />
Columbia University<br />
Jenna Colvin<br />
Timothy Cone<br />
John J. Connolly<br />
Anupama Connor<br />
Lynne Cooper<br />
Benjamin Cooper<br />
Michael Cooper<br />
Stephanie Coste<br />
Covington & Burling LLP<br />
Jennifer Cowan<br />
Douglas Cox<br />
Randy Coyne<br />
Cramer and Minock, PLC<br />
Cori A. Crider<br />
William Crow<br />
Nicole M. Crum<br />
Audrey Cumming<br />
Paul Curnin<br />
Douglas Curtis<br />
David Cynamon<br />
Richard L. Cys<br />
Christine Dahl<br />
Ronald Daignault<br />
George Daly<br />
Jeffrey J. Davis<br />
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP<br />
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP<br />
Dechert LLP<br />
Don Degnan<br />
Ambreen Delawalla<br />
Joshua W. Denbeaux<br />
Mark Denbeaux<br />
Denbeaux & Denbeaux<br />
Denver Lawyers<br />
Matthew Devine<br />
Rebecca P. Dick<br />
David G. Dickman<br />
Dickstein Shapiro LLP<br />
Clare Diegel<br />
James Dillon<br />
Kimberly DiLorenzo<br />
W. Matthew Dodge<br />
Ronan Doherty<br />
Skye Donald<br />
James Dorsey<br />
Dorsey & Whitney LLP<br />
Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC<br />
Brendan Driscoll<br />
Michael W. Drumke<br />
Duke University School<br />
of Law<br />
Theresa M. Duncan<br />
Sarah Dunn<br />
Melissa Durkee<br />
Thomas Anthony Durkin<br />
Durkin & Roberts<br />
Chris Dysard<br />
David East<br />
Armin Eberhard<br />
Edwards Angell Palmer &<br />
Dodge LLP<br />
Buz Eisenberg<br />
David Elbaum<br />
Robert M. Elliot<br />
Elliot Pishko Morgan P.A.<br />
David L. Engerhardt<br />
Connie Ericson<br />
Jeffrey L. Ertel<br />
Esdaile, Barrett & Esdaile<br />
Marc Falkoff<br />
James M. Falvey<br />
George Farah<br />
Farschad Farzan<br />
Federal Defender Office<br />
of South Florida<br />
Federal Defender Program<br />
<strong>for</strong> the Northern District<br />
of Georgia<br />
Jon Fee<br />
Warren Feldman<br />
Sarah Fels<br />
Benjamin H. Field<br />
Mark Fleming<br />
Martin Flumenbaum<br />
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Guantánamo Habeas Counsel (continued)<br />
Marc Falkoff has been co-counsel with <strong>CCR</strong> representing 17 Yemeni detainees at<br />
Guantánamo Bay prison camp <strong>for</strong> several years, both as an associate at a major national firm and<br />
now as a law professor. Beyond his valuable service to his clients and to the concept of justice, what<br />
makes his story unique is his latest project: a just-released collection of poems written by some of the<br />
men held at the camp. Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak gives voice to those whose<br />
voices had been silenced. In one of the more creative ways that people have supported the <strong>Center</strong>,<br />
Marc designated the proceeds from the book to go to support <strong>CCR</strong>’s Guantánamo Global Justice<br />
Initiative.<br />
Murray Fogler<br />
Foley Hoag LLP<br />
Foliart, Huff, Ottaway &<br />
Bottom<br />
Fordham University School of<br />
Law, International Justice<br />
Clinic<br />
Paul T. Fortino<br />
Tina Monshipour Foster<br />
Brian S. Fraser<br />
Fredrikson & Byron PA<br />
Eric M. Freedman<br />
Freedman Boyd Daniels<br />
Hollander Goldberg<br />
& Ives PA<br />
Matthew Freimuth<br />
Scott H. Frewing<br />
Jill Friedman<br />
Agnieszka Fryszman<br />
Fulbright & Jaworski LLP<br />
Robert Galantucci<br />
Reena Gambhir<br />
Avi Garbow<br />
Allen Garrett<br />
Garvey Schubert Barer<br />
Zachary Gelber<br />
Robert A. Gensburg<br />
Gensburg, Atwell & Broderick<br />
John J. Gibbons<br />
Gibbons, P.C.<br />
Gilroy, Kammen & Hill<br />
Elizabeth P. Gilson<br />
Jeffrey Gleason<br />
Emily Goldberg<br />
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Jared Goldstein<br />
George G. Gordon<br />
H. Candace Gorman<br />
KC Goyer<br />
Robert Graham<br />
Jason Green<br />
Eldon V.C. Greenberg<br />
Ayo Griffin<br />
Richard A. Grigg<br />
Nienke Grossman<br />
David Grossman<br />
David Gunn<br />
Harold Gurewitz<br />
Gurewitz & Raben PLC<br />
Abigail Gustafson<br />
Dinh Ha<br />
Jonathan Hafetz<br />
Ordesse Hamad<br />
Suhana S. Han<br />
Matthew Handley<br />
Osman Handoo<br />
Hangley Aronchick Segal &<br />
Pudlin<br />
Daniel Hanifin<br />
Elizabeth Hardy<br />
J. Wells Harrell<br />
Hartmann Doherty Rosa &<br />
Berman, LLC<br />
Harvard Law School<br />
Marcellene E. Hearn<br />
Heller Ehrman LLP<br />
Rene Herzog<br />
David Hickerson<br />
Clark Hodgson Jr.<br />
Melissa Hoffer<br />
Hofstra Law School<br />
John R. Holland<br />
Holland & Hart LLP<br />
Nancy Hollander<br />
Steven Hopper<br />
Hopper and Company Lawyers<br />
Yuri Horwitz<br />
James Hosking<br />
Craig Hoster<br />
Erica L. Hovani<br />
Christopher Huber<br />
Gaillard T. Hunt<br />
Hunton & Williams LLP<br />
Kristine A. Huskey<br />
Varda Hussain<br />
Alex Iliff<br />
Gary Isaac<br />
Sarah Jackel<br />
Ketanji Jackson<br />
Jessica Jacob<br />
Beth D. Jacob<br />
Jeffrey S. Jacobovitz<br />
Michael Jacobs<br />
Meetali Jain<br />
James W. Beane Jr.<br />
Jenner & Block LLP<br />
Tom R. Johnson Jr.<br />
Emily Jolly<br />
Paula Jones<br />
Glenn Jones<br />
Lisa Marie Kaas<br />
Rick Kammen<br />
Steve Kane<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> Spotlight<br />
“Make no mistake about it – our government is engaging in<br />
a <strong>for</strong>m of ‘lawfare’ in the courts. In the Guantánamo cases,<br />
which <strong>CCR</strong> has spearheaded <strong>for</strong> nearly six years, the Bush<br />
administration has sought to undermine the writ of habeas corpus solely to advance its<br />
military goals in our so-called ‘war on terror.’ We can all be thankful that <strong>CCR</strong> remains<br />
unbowed in its fight to preserve human rights and the rule of law.”<br />
Matthew B. Kaplan<br />
Christopher G. Karagheuzoff<br />
Jason Karasik<br />
David Karp<br />
Ramzi Kassem<br />
Rene Kathawala<br />
Zachary Katznelson<br />
Samuel C. Kauffman<br />
Keller & Heckman LLP<br />
Tara R. Kelly<br />
Patti Kemp<br />
Kimberly Anne Kessler<br />
Christian Khan<br />
Hamid Khan<br />
Mahvish Khan<br />
Darold W. Killmer<br />
Killmer, Lane & Newman, LLP<br />
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP<br />
Rob Kirsch<br />
Daniel Kirschner<br />
Jan Kitchel<br />
Sarah Klee<br />
Donald A. Klein<br />
Jessica Klein<br />
Sarah Knapp<br />
Jason Knott<br />
Neil Koslowe<br />
Kramer Levin Naftails &<br />
Frankel LLP<br />
David Kronenberg<br />
Corwin Kruse<br />
William Kuebler<br />
Philip Lacovara<br />
David J. Laing
Sapna Lalmalani<br />
Joseph Landau<br />
Jeffrey Lang<br />
Darren LaVerne<br />
Lavin, O’Neil, Ricci, Cedrone<br />
& DiSipio<br />
Erika C. Lazar<br />
Paul A. Leder<br />
Karen Lee<br />
Allison Lefrak<br />
Legal Aid of New York<br />
Matthew Leonard<br />
Linda Lerner<br />
Walter Lesnevich<br />
Lesnevich &<br />
Marzano-Lesnevich<br />
Lesser, Newman, Souweine &<br />
Nasser<br />
Jason Leviton<br />
Eric L. Lewis<br />
Amber Lewis<br />
Heather Lewis<br />
Brian Lewis<br />
Emma Lindsay<br />
Greg Lipper<br />
Nikki Livolsi<br />
Elaina Loizou<br />
Rachel Lopez<br />
Ellen Lubell<br />
Cathy Lui<br />
John Lundquist<br />
Lawrence S. Lustberg<br />
J. Triplett Mackintosh<br />
Matthew J. MacLean<br />
Hanna Madbak<br />
Brian D. Maddox<br />
Nauman Malik<br />
Daniel C. Malone<br />
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP<br />
Howard Manchel<br />
Manchel, Wiggins &<br />
Kaye LLP<br />
Henry Lee Mann<br />
Shant Manoukian<br />
Deborah Mantell<br />
Johnathan Margolis<br />
Joe Margulies<br />
Lou Marjon<br />
David S. Marshall<br />
Larry Martin<br />
Alexandria Marzano<br />
Julia Tarver Mason<br />
Tanisha Massie<br />
Edwin S. Matthews<br />
Jonisha Matthews<br />
Mayer Brown LLP<br />
McCarter & English LLP<br />
Bridget McCormack<br />
McDermott, Will & Emery<br />
Tracey McDonald<br />
Stephen P. McFate<br />
Neil McGaraghan<br />
Reginald B. McKnight<br />
Amy J. McMaster<br />
Joseph M. McMillan<br />
Brian Meadors<br />
Brian Mendelsohn<br />
Semra A. Mesulam<br />
Francesca Miceli<br />
Scott Michelman<br />
George Brent Mickum IV<br />
Issa Mikel<br />
John R. Minock<br />
John B. Missing<br />
Nicholas Mitchell<br />
Shams Mitha<br />
Nicole Moen<br />
Lia Monahon<br />
Michael E. Mone<br />
Michael E. Mone Jr.<br />
Christopher Moore<br />
Dan Mori<br />
Morrison & Foerster LLP<br />
Daniel P. Moylan<br />
William E. Murane<br />
William J. Murphy<br />
Richard G. Murphy<br />
Murphy & Shaffer LLC<br />
Arnold Natali<br />
Maya Nath<br />
Brian J. Neff<br />
Joseph Neguse<br />
Mari Newman<br />
William C. Newman<br />
Jill Nickerson<br />
Nixon Peabody LLP<br />
Northern Illinois University<br />
College of Law<br />
Northwestern University<br />
School of Law<br />
Notre Dame Law School,<br />
<strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> Civil and Human<br />
<strong>Rights</strong><br />
Sophia Nuon<br />
Siham Nurhussein<br />
Scarlett Obadia<br />
Sean O’Brien<br />
W. Scott O’Connell<br />
Matthew O’Hara<br />
Stephen Oleskey<br />
Barbara Olshansky<br />
Joseph O’Neil<br />
Orrick, Herrington &<br />
Sutcliffe LLP<br />
Larry Ottaway<br />
Carolyn Pagliocchini<br />
Andrew Pak<br />
Jonathan Palmer<br />
Chintan Panchal<br />
Charles Patterson<br />
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton<br />
& Garrison LLP<br />
Pepper Hamilton LLP<br />
Perkins Coie LLP<br />
David Peters<br />
Charles H.R. Peters<br />
Gareth Pierce<br />
Kit Pierson<br />
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw<br />
Pittman LLP<br />
Jason Pinney<br />
Sarah Pojanowski<br />
Elizabeth Popolis<br />
Cristina Posa<br />
Michael Poulshock<br />
Wesley Powell<br />
Kevin Powers<br />
Adrian Bleifuss Prados<br />
Pryor, Robertwon, Beasley,<br />
Smith & Karber PLLC<br />
Donald Pugilese<br />
E. Theresa Purgason<br />
Robert D. Rachlin<br />
Jana Ramsey<br />
Michael Rapkin<br />
Paul M. Rashkind<br />
Noah Rashkind<br />
Uzma Rasool<br />
Jack Ratliff<br />
Anant Raut<br />
Martha Rayner<br />
Frank C. Razzano<br />
Bina Reddy<br />
Reed Smith LLP<br />
Paul Reichler<br />
Elizabeth Reidy<br />
Nathan Reilly<br />
David Remes<br />
Reprieve<br />
Sara J. Rich<br />
Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP<br />
Paula Rietzel<br />
Janis D. Roberts<br />
Richard Roberts<br />
Michael W. Robinson<br />
Elizabeth Rodgers<br />
Rodgers, Powers &<br />
Schwartz, LLP<br />
Marcus Rodriguez<br />
Roger Williams University<br />
School of Law<br />
Philip Rohlik<br />
John C. Rothermich<br />
Samuel Rowley<br />
Sylvia Royce<br />
Louis Ruprecht<br />
Ruprecht, Hart & Weeks LLP<br />
Brent Rush<strong>for</strong>th<br />
Rheba Rutkowski<br />
Diana Rutowski<br />
Peter M. Ryan<br />
Lowell Sachnoff<br />
Seema Saifee<br />
Glenn Salvo<br />
Douglas B. Sanders<br />
Juliet Sarkessian<br />
Mark Sayre<br />
Andrew J. Schaefer<br />
Schiff Hardin LLP<br />
James Schmitz<br />
Schnader, Harrison, Segal &<br />
Lewis LLP<br />
Debra Schneider<br />
Harry H. Schneider<br />
Paul Schoeman<br />
James Schroeder<br />
David Schur<br />
Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt<br />
Harvey Schwartz<br />
Alison L. Sclater<br />
Kristina Scoto<br />
Randolph S. Sergent<br />
Seton Hall Law School <strong>Center</strong><br />
<strong>for</strong> Social Justice<br />
Amanda Shafer<br />
Benjamin S. Sharp<br />
Shearman & Sterling LLP<br />
Patrick Sheldon<br />
Sheri Shepherd<br />
Deming E. Sherman<br />
Jessica Sherman<br />
Laura Shiltz<br />
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Guantánamo Habeas Counsel (continued)<br />
Shook, Hardy & Bacon LLP<br />
Eric W. Sievers<br />
Cary Silverman<br />
Gia Simon<br />
Valerie Simons<br />
Simpson Thacher &<br />
Bartlett LLP<br />
Charles C. Sipos<br />
Michael Siudzinski<br />
David Sleigh<br />
Sleigh & Williams<br />
Marjorie M. Smith<br />
Julia Smith<br />
Sara Smolik<br />
Thomas Snider<br />
John Snodgrass<br />
Ben Snowden<br />
Richard A. Soble<br />
Soble Rowe Krichbaum LLP<br />
Doug Sondgeroth<br />
Lynne Campbell Soutter<br />
Brian C. Spahn<br />
Douglas Spaulding<br />
Mary Spears<br />
Spears & Imes LLP<br />
Spivey & Grigg LLP<br />
Kent Spriggs<br />
Spriggs Law Firm<br />
Sprigs & Hollingsworth<br />
Clive A. Staf<strong>for</strong>d-Smith<br />
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Brent Starks<br />
Rebecca Starr<br />
Adrian Lee Steel<br />
Tara Steeley<br />
Michael J. Sternhell<br />
Stradley Ronon Stevens &<br />
Young, LLP<br />
Jeffrey M. Strauss<br />
Mark S. Sullivan<br />
Patricia A. Sullivan<br />
Thomas Sullivan<br />
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP<br />
Alan Sussman<br />
Sutherland Asbill &<br />
Brennan LLP<br />
Julia Symon<br />
Elizabeth V. Tanis<br />
Asmah Tareen<br />
Alexis Teicher<br />
Doris Tennant<br />
Tennant Lubell, LLC<br />
Fleming Terrell<br />
Gary Thompson<br />
Wade Thomson<br />
A. Katherine Toomey<br />
Marina Trad<br />
Charles M. Travis<br />
Michael W. Trinh<br />
Stephen M. Truitt<br />
Sozi Tulante<br />
Suzanne E. Turner<br />
University of Michigan<br />
Law School Clinical<br />
Law Program<br />
University of Oklahoma<br />
College of Law <strong>Center</strong><br />
University of Texas School<br />
of Law<br />
University of Texas School<br />
of Law, Rule of Law in<br />
Wartime Clinic<br />
Andrew Vail<br />
Jill van Berg<br />
Veronica Vela<br />
Venable LLP<br />
Angela C. Vigil<br />
Danielle R. Voorhees<br />
Eliot J. Walker<br />
Terry Walsh<br />
James (Bud) Walsh<br />
Sally Walter<br />
Michael Ward<br />
Steve Wasserman<br />
Hadassa Waxman<br />
Robert C. Weaver, Jr.<br />
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP<br />
Weinberg & Garber, P.C.<br />
Robert Weiner<br />
Jamie Weitzel<br />
Jason C. Welch<br />
Awards<br />
Lennon Ono Grant <strong>for</strong> Peace<br />
Presented by Yoko Ono<br />
Gregory Welikson<br />
Carolyn M. Welshhans<br />
William Wertheimer Jr.<br />
Terry West<br />
Cody M. Weston<br />
Michael Whitlock<br />
Kristin B. Wilhelm<br />
Peter Sabin Willett<br />
Jill M. Williamson<br />
WilmerHale<br />
Thomas Wilner<br />
Richard J. Wilson<br />
Elizabeth A. Wilson<br />
Paul Winke<br />
Meghan N. Winokur<br />
Julie Withers<br />
Jo-Anne Wolfson<br />
Abiel K Wong<br />
Elton Wong<br />
Gordon S. Woodward<br />
Jenny Workman<br />
Colin Wrabley<br />
Jeffrey Wu<br />
Yale Law School<br />
Jon R. Zulauf<br />
Zulauf & Chambliss<br />
Lisa B. Zycherman<br />
Letelier-Moffitt Human <strong>Rights</strong> Award<br />
Presented by the Institute <strong>for</strong> Policy Studies<br />
Raphael Lemkin Human <strong>Rights</strong> Award<br />
Presented by Rabbis <strong>for</strong> Human <strong>Rights</strong> – North America<br />
Hans Litten Prize<br />
Presented by Democratic Lawyers of Germany<br />
To <strong>CCR</strong> President Michael Ratner <strong>for</strong> his work with <strong>CCR</strong><br />
Special Recognition <strong>for</strong> Continuous Dedication<br />
to the Advancement of Human <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Presented by the Bahrain Centre <strong>for</strong> Human <strong>Rights</strong>
Audited Financial <strong>Report</strong> July 1 2006 – June 30 <strong>2007</strong><br />
Net Assets<br />
Net Assets as of June 30, 2006 $5,029,974<br />
Change in net assets $(75,549)<br />
Net assets as of June 30, <strong>2007</strong> $4,954,425<br />
Revenue, Gains & Other Support<br />
Planned Gifts $149,102<br />
Foundations $3,116,804<br />
Indivdiduals $1,270,471<br />
Court Awards and Attorney Fees $70,303<br />
Rent $1,010<br />
Interest $174,701<br />
Other $56,494<br />
Total Revenue, Gains and Other Support $4,838,885<br />
Expenses<br />
Litigation $2,421,869<br />
Education & Outreach $1,317,626<br />
Administrative & General $656,581<br />
Fundraising $518,358<br />
Total Expenses $4,914,434<br />
For an independent evaluation of our financial health<br />
visit Charity Navigator who gave us a perfect four star rating<br />
at www.charitynavigator.org<br />
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Planned Giving<br />
Our planned giving program <strong>for</strong>ms the bedrock of our ef<strong>for</strong>ts to build an endowment. By including <strong>CCR</strong> in your estate<br />
plan, you can create an institutional legacy to defend the hard-won victories of your lifetime. Thelma Newman Society<br />
members ensure that <strong>CCR</strong> will be there <strong>for</strong> the long haul, working to undo the constitutional damage done in the last<br />
10 years and to fight <strong>for</strong> the rights of the next generation. Please contact us if you have any questions about making a<br />
bequest, endowment, gift annuity or other <strong>for</strong>m of estate gift.<br />
Thelma Newman Planned Giving Society Members<br />
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Vicki Alexander<br />
Evelyn Alloy<br />
Ruth Andrews<br />
Carol Ascher<br />
Ruth Bardach<br />
Philip Bereano<br />
Harvey Blend<br />
Robert Boehm †<br />
Frederick and Betty Briehl<br />
Mary Carr<br />
Marial Delo<br />
Jeffrey Dickemann<br />
George and Minna Doskow<br />
Norman Dreyfuss † and Cathy Dreyfuss<br />
Kay Duffy<br />
Leona Feyer<br />
Albert and Anne Filardo<br />
Curt Firestone<br />
Sol Fisher<br />
Cecily Fox<br />
Mary Geissman<br />
Raymond † and Lise Giraud<br />
Frances Goldin<br />
Ed Goldman and Judith Riven<br />
Ellen and Ellis Harris<br />
John Hayward<br />
Martin and Mildred Hird<br />
Leo Hurvich<br />
Martin and Carolyn Karcher<br />
Gordon Kent<br />
Alfred Knobler<br />
Hilda Knobloch<br />
Elizabeth Landis<br />
Helen Lane<br />
Joan Lewis<br />
Evelyn Lundstrom<br />
Hilda Mason<br />
Alice McGrath<br />
John Wilson studied American history at Philips Exeter Academy in the 1950s with an inspiring<br />
teacher, Henry Bragdon, who sparked Mr. Wilson’s fascination with history, current events,<br />
and helped shape Wilson’s liberal perspective. While there, Wilson acquired great respect <strong>for</strong> the<br />
U.S. Constitution, and he saw the Civil <strong>Rights</strong> Movement as the further realization of the principles<br />
enshrined in it. As a long time social justice activist, John Wilson became alarmed with the attack<br />
on constitutional liberties after September 11, 2001, and was particularly impressed when <strong>CCR</strong><br />
took up the cases of the Guantánamo Bay prisoners.<br />
Barbara Michael<br />
Joe Morton<br />
James Odling<br />
William Parsons<br />
Mahlon and Lovel Perkins<br />
Dolores Priem<br />
David Rich<br />
Jack Rihn<br />
Doris Shaffer<br />
Rosalie Stahl<br />
Margot Steigman<br />
Joe Stern<br />
Clio Tarazi<br />
Ethel Tobach<br />
Florence Wagner<br />
Peter Weiss<br />
Ginia Wexler<br />
John Wilson<br />
† These gifts were made by donors who passed away this year or made a bequest to <strong>CCR</strong> which was received this year..<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> Spotlight<br />
“I was first drawn to <strong>CCR</strong> because it had the courage to take a<br />
stand and represent the Guantánamo Bay prisoners. Making a<br />
legacy gift to <strong>CCR</strong> is one way that I can participate in the long<br />
struggle to reclaim what the U.S. government has taken away<br />
in the name of the ‘war on terror.”<br />
—John Wilson, <strong>CCR</strong> donor and Thelma Newman Planned Giving Society Member
Our Donors July 1 2006 – June 30 <strong>2007</strong><br />
We have come a long way since our founders created the <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Constitutional</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> to provide legal support to<br />
organizations and individuals engaged in the civil rights struggles in the South. But no vision, certainly not one as<br />
ambitious as <strong>CCR</strong>’s, is realized alone; our donors are the heart of this organization. Without the individuals listed<br />
below, and many many more, our work would have neither the reach nor impact that it does. The cases, projects and<br />
ef<strong>for</strong>ts you have read about in this report are made possible because you have joined with us in the fight. It is with great appreciation<br />
that we recognize our partners and supporters.<br />
Founders Circle g i f t s o f $1000 a n d a b o v e<br />
$500,000 and above<br />
The Atlantic Philanthropies (USA)<br />
$100,000 and above<br />
Anonymous<br />
The CS Fund/Warsh-Mott Legacy<br />
The Ford Foundation<br />
The HKH Foundation<br />
The Oak Foundation<br />
The Vanguard Charitable<br />
Endowment Program<br />
$50,000 – $99,999<br />
Anonymous<br />
The Arca Foundation<br />
Vita Barsky †<br />
George and Minna Doskow<br />
The Funding Exchange National<br />
Community Funds<br />
The JEHT Foundation<br />
Elizabeth S. Landis<br />
The Lennon Ono Grant <strong>for</strong> Peace<br />
Madison Community Foundation<br />
Richard and Marilyn Mazess<br />
Katherine and David Moore<br />
Yoko Ono<br />
The Open Society Institute<br />
The Ratner Family<br />
The Ritter Foundation<br />
The Tides Foundation<br />
The Wallace Global Fund<br />
$25,000 – $49,999<br />
Anonymous<br />
Hisham Altalib<br />
The Angelina Fund<br />
George and Beverly August<br />
Jamal Barzinji<br />
The Charles Evans Hughes<br />
Memorial Foundation<br />
† These gifts were made by donors who passed away this year<br />
or made a bequest to <strong>CCR</strong> which was received this year..<br />
The Common Counsel Foundation<br />
Victor and Lorraine Honig<br />
International Institute of<br />
Islamic Thought<br />
Jingo Foundation<br />
The Libra Foundation<br />
The David and Katherine Moore<br />
Family Foundation, Inc.<br />
Zella Luria<br />
Nancy Meyer and Marc Weiss<br />
Rotonda Foundation<br />
The Samuel Rubin Foundation<br />
The Scherman Foundation, Inc.<br />
Robert Schwartz †<br />
Shrewsbury Foundation<br />
Samuel Wiener Jr.<br />
Working Assets Funding Service<br />
$10,000 – $24,999<br />
Anonymous<br />
The Jewish Communal Fund<br />
The Alfred and Jane Ross Foundation<br />
Eric and Cindy Arbanovella<br />
Laurie Arbeiter and Jennifer Hobbs<br />
Carol Ascher and Robert Pittenger<br />
Lois Baker †<br />
The Bardon-Cole Foundation<br />
John Bernstein<br />
The Blue Oak Foundation<br />
The Charitable Gift Fund<br />
The Christopher Reynolds Foundation<br />
Sandra Coliver<br />
Norman Dreyfuss † and Cathy Dreyfuss<br />
Thomas Durst<br />
The Epstein Philanthropies<br />
Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund<br />
The Firedoll Foundation<br />
The Fritz Pappenheim Fund<br />
of the Tides Foundation<br />
Leo and Sherry Frumkin<br />
Richard and Carolyn Glickstein<br />
John and Kathryn Greenberg<br />
The Grodzins Fund<br />
Scott D. Handleman<br />
George Harrison †<br />
The Helena Rubinstein Foundation<br />
John B. Henry<br />
Emily Honig<br />
Iara Lee and George Gund III<br />
Foundation<br />
Institute of International Education<br />
Cassim and Chung Ja Jadwat<br />
The Jewish Communal Fund<br />
Gordon D. Kent<br />
The Liberty Hill Foundation<br />
The Max and Anna<br />
Levinson Foundation<br />
The Meijer & Klaber Families<br />
Memorial Fund<br />
Holly Myers and Kirk Neely<br />
The New York Community Trust<br />
The New-Land Foundation<br />
Abigail Norman<br />
The Normandie Foundation<br />
Alfred Ross<br />
Albert Ruben<br />
Louis Slesin<br />
The Spingold Foundation<br />
Jean Stein, JKW Foundation<br />
The Taub Family Foundation<br />
The Vital Projects Fund, Inc.<br />
Ian Wallach and Cindy Chupack<br />
The William B. Wiener, Jr. Foundation<br />
John H. Wilson<br />
Irving and Evelyn Wolfe<br />
Howard Zucker<br />
$5,000 – $9,999<br />
Anonymous<br />
Franz and Marcia Allina<br />
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<strong>CCR</strong> Donors<br />
Joan Antonucci †<br />
Benjamin Berg Family Trust †<br />
Benjamin and Hazel Mae Berg †<br />
The Bernard F. and Alva B.<br />
Gimbel Foundation<br />
Jean-David Beyer<br />
David and Ellen Block<br />
Ida G. Braun<br />
Bernie J. Casey<br />
Charles Crane and Wendy Breuer<br />
The Elizabeth M. Gitt Foundation<br />
James and Louise Frankel<br />
The Friendship Fund<br />
Mary J. Geissman<br />
Gould Family Foundation<br />
Marion Greene<br />
Evelyn Yee and Randall D. Holmberg<br />
Lisa Honig<br />
The Jeannette and H. Peter Kriendler<br />
Charitable Trust<br />
John Carroll University<br />
Joseph & Sally Handleman Foundation<br />
William D. Kirby<br />
Frederick and Emily Kunreuther<br />
Barry and Paula Litt<br />
Jules Lobel<br />
Louis Lowenstein<br />
Tom W. Lyons<br />
Vincent McGee<br />
Rachel Mustin<br />
Max and Nicole Newman<br />
Henry Norr<br />
The Overbrook Foundation<br />
The Philanthropic Collaborative<br />
Claudette Piper<br />
Steve and Carolyn Purcell<br />
Ralph E. Ogden Foundation, Inc.<br />
Amelie L. Ratliff<br />
Mark and Nancy Ratner<br />
Ronald and Deborah B. Ratner<br />
Reed Smith LLP<br />
Margaret and Henry Reuss<br />
Stuart A. Rockefeller<br />
Eric and Fiona Rudin<br />
The San Francisco<br />
Foundation<br />
Schwab Fund <strong>for</strong><br />
Charitable Giving<br />
Alfred H. Schwendtner<br />
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Seymour & Sylvia Rothchild Family<br />
2004 Charitable Foundation<br />
Donald and Doris Shaffer<br />
Silicon Valley Community Foundation<br />
Douglas Spaulding<br />
Clive A. Staf<strong>for</strong>d-Smith<br />
Adam and Jane Stein<br />
Lynn S. Stern<br />
Beatrice Stern<br />
Josephine A. Willard †<br />
Chic Wolk<br />
Edith and Marjorie Ziefert<br />
$2,500 – $4,999<br />
Anonymous<br />
Daniel Alterman and Li Wah Lai<br />
Rita and William Bender<br />
Ara Bernardi<br />
Gene C. Bernardi<br />
Maryalice Bigham-Hughes<br />
Miriam Buhl<br />
The Chicago Community Foundation<br />
Timothy Coffey<br />
Community Foundation of New Jersey<br />
Kathryn Dowling<br />
Shiva Eftekhari<br />
Norman Eisner and Zelda Aronstein<br />
Evan Fales<br />
Rosemary Faulkner<br />
Louis Fisher<br />
Ronald Force †<br />
Franklin E. and Alice Fried<br />
The Fund <strong>for</strong> Southern Communities<br />
James and Bettie Hannan<br />
Lynne Henderson<br />
William and Virginia Hildebrand<br />
John Hoffmeyer and Janet M. Corpus<br />
Jewish Community Federation<br />
of Cleveland<br />
The John D. and Catherine T.<br />
MacArthur Foundation<br />
The Key Foundation<br />
Rochelle Korman<br />
Seymour Krauth †<br />
William Lank<strong>for</strong>d<br />
Eileen and Paul Le Fort<br />
Timothy J. Lee and Eleanor McBride<br />
Joan Lewis<br />
Eric L. Lewis<br />
Ramsay MacMullen<br />
John and Martha Marks<br />
Rob McConnell and Maria DeCastro<br />
Patricia F. Mullahy<br />
Mary and Benjamin Page<br />
Richard L. Pearlstone<br />
Lawrence and Janet Rivkin<br />
Alex and Carole Rosenberg<br />
Kyla and Ethan Ryman<br />
Edwin E. Salpeter and<br />
Antonia L. Shouse<br />
Wallace M. Shawn<br />
Charles Sikorovsky<br />
Morton Sobell and Nancy Gruber<br />
Richard A. Soble and Barbara L. Kessler<br />
Swann Galleries, Inc.<br />
Merry Tucker<br />
George Wallerstein<br />
Walter & Elise Haas Fund<br />
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP<br />
The Wyss Family Foundation<br />
Ellen Yaroshefsky<br />
Barbara A. Zeluck<br />
Michael Zweig and Kathy Chamberlain<br />
$1,000 – $2,499<br />
Anonymous<br />
Adriana Alberghetti<br />
Halima Al-Hassan<br />
Salam Al-Rawi<br />
Theresa F. Alt<br />
Alan and Donna Altschuler<br />
Nabil and Ann Amer<br />
Janet S. Arnold and Michael H. Rubin<br />
The Arthur & Henrietta A. Sorin<br />
Charitable Trust<br />
Emily S. Attwell, Attwell Foundation<br />
Judy Austermiller and Warren Betty<br />
James A. and Beate K. Becker<br />
Charles and Leslie Berger<br />
Matthew A. Berlin and Simone Liebman<br />
Bernard Stern Family Trust<br />
Jose F. and Francella W. Betancourt<br />
Raghu K. and Sushma Bhardwaj<br />
Alexis Bleich<br />
Emmet J. Bondurant<br />
Laura J. Borst<br />
The Boston Foundation<br />
Martin Brod<br />
† These gifts were made by donors who passed away this year<br />
or made a bequest to <strong>CCR</strong> which was received this year..
Ian Michael Wallach and Cindy Chupack are proud supporters of the <strong>Center</strong>.<br />
Cindy is an award-winning writer and executive producer, best known <strong>for</strong> her work on HBO’s Sex<br />
and the City. Ian is currently an L.A. County Deputy Public Defender, but prior to starting that job, he<br />
represented three Guantánamo Bay detainees in connection with <strong>CCR</strong>’s Guantánamo Global Justice<br />
Initiative. In 2006 in New York, Cindy and Ian hosted their first fundraiser <strong>for</strong> <strong>CCR</strong>, “Cheese, Chocolate<br />
and Chipping In,” and later hosted an elaborate party this summer in Los Angeles. Thanks to Ian and<br />
Cindy, <strong>CCR</strong> now has 80 new friends in the entertainment industry as well as public interest lawyers and<br />
other people who care about social change.<br />
Judith and Don Broder<br />
Peter and Alice Broner<br />
Allan and Muriel Brotsky<br />
Tara A. Caffrey and Jeffrey J. Vroom<br />
Steve Callas<br />
John Caruso<br />
Peter and Lucia Case<br />
Waifun B. Chan and Kurt Breuninger<br />
John A. Chandler and Elizabeth V. Tanis<br />
Laura and Richard Chasin<br />
Victor H. Chechanover<br />
The Columbus Foundation<br />
The Community Foundation<br />
of Santa Cruz<br />
Community Foundation of Western<br />
Massachusetts<br />
David B. Cone and Kellie Stoddart<br />
Rhonda Copelon<br />
Michael Cowing<br />
Robert A. Cunningham<br />
E. Patrick Curry and Susan B. Campbell<br />
Norman Danner<br />
The David and Sylvia Teitelbaum<br />
Fund, Inc.<br />
Emily Deferrari and Mel Packer<br />
Madeline deLone and Bobby Cohen<br />
Michelle J. DePass<br />
Roger Dittmann<br />
Michael Donkis<br />
James Donnell<br />
Kevin Donovan<br />
Daniel and Lee Drake<br />
Mark Drake<br />
Martin J. Dreyfuss<br />
Rodney and Carole Driver<br />
Robert Dubrow<br />
Paul and Susan Durrant<br />
Diane Early and Daniel Gigone<br />
Margaret L. Eberbach<br />
The Edward W. Hazen Foundation<br />
Elsberg Family Foundation<br />
Ari Emanuel<br />
Endeavor Agency<br />
Wallace and Heike Eubanks<br />
Robert M. Factor<br />
Fein Foundation<br />
Frederic J. Feingold<br />
Gena Feist<br />
Robert Fenichel<br />
Robert Fertik<br />
Daniel and Anita Fine<br />
Robert Fodor and Thurid Clark<br />
Mike Forter<br />
Robert A. Friedman<br />
Amanda H. Frost<br />
Kit and Steven Gage<br />
Lola and Isaiah Gellman<br />
General Board of Global Ministries,<br />
Women’s Division<br />
The George Lichter Family Foundation<br />
Daniel Gillmor<br />
Sherna and Marvin Gluck<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> Spotlight<br />
Cindy says, “Writing, <strong>for</strong> me, has always been a way to get<br />
people’s attention and make a difference, and I love that<br />
<strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Constitutional</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> does the same thing with the<br />
law. I’m fed up with this administration and happy to support<br />
an organization that is using the law creatively to get America back on track.<br />
These are challenging times <strong>for</strong> our country, and <strong>CCR</strong> is up <strong>for</strong> the challenge.”<br />
Ian, Cindy and their<br />
St. Bernard rescue, Tink<br />
Frances Goldin<br />
Janice Goodman<br />
Jane Gould<br />
Holly B. Gray<br />
Arrel T. Gray<br />
Frank and Judith Greenberg<br />
Lynn Greiner and John Midgley<br />
Paul Haas<br />
Collier Hands<br />
Hildegarde K. Hannum<br />
Lisa Harrison<br />
The Helen Keeler Burke Charitable<br />
Foundation<br />
Nathan Hershey<br />
Greg Hodes<br />
Christopher W. Hornig and<br />
Nancy J. Garruba<br />
David and Susan Horowitz<br />
Ruth Hubbard<br />
Human and Civil <strong>Rights</strong> Organizations<br />
of America<br />
Renate D. Hunter<br />
Steven Hyman<br />
Abdeen M. Jabara and Holly Maguigan<br />
Kenneth M. Jones<br />
Joseph Rosen Foundation<br />
William H. Josephson<br />
Morton C. and Merle R. Kane<br />
Terry Karl<br />
Ira G. Kawaller<br />
Ernest and Nancy Keet<br />
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<strong>CCR</strong> Donors<br />
Martin Kenner and Camilla Smith<br />
Jerry Kickenson<br />
Joyce Kirschner and Richard S. Aronson<br />
Joanne Kliejunas and Irving Lubliner<br />
Marily Knieriemen<br />
Joanna Knobler<br />
Alfie Kohn<br />
Melodee Kornacker<br />
Merle and Phyllis Krause<br />
Michael Krinsky<br />
Edward M. Krishok and Peggy K. Hong<br />
Mary and Ulrich Kruse<br />
Joseph B. Kruskal<br />
Roger and Belle Kuhn<br />
James Kwak<br />
Mitch Lau<br />
Judy Lerner<br />
Mark L. Levine and Stephanie<br />
von Hirschberg<br />
George and Ann Levinger<br />
Judith Lichtenberg and David J. Luban<br />
Mark Lopez<br />
Matthew J. MacLean<br />
Susan E. Manuel<br />
Hubert and Rachelle Marshall<br />
William G. Mascioli<br />
Robert and Ellen Meeropol<br />
Juliet A. Melamid<br />
Carson A. Miller<br />
Mahmoud and Laila Mohamed<br />
Helen R. Moore<br />
Richard and Barbara Moore<br />
Richard A. Moran<br />
Scott Morgan<br />
Richard and Kathe Morse<br />
Brian J. Neff<br />
Jill W. Nelson and Thomas R. Bidell<br />
The New Prospect Foundation<br />
Colette Newman<br />
Nancy J. Newman and Mark Walstrom<br />
Louie D. Nikolaidis and<br />
Rachel Horowitz<br />
Michael O. Nimkoff<br />
The O Live Fund<br />
Eve Pell<br />
Mahlon and Lovel Perkins<br />
Barbara B. Perkins<br />
Hanna Pitkin<br />
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Miriam Pollet<br />
Anne Posel<br />
Frances R. Posel<br />
Florence B. Prescott<br />
Priscilla J. McMillan Revocable Trust<br />
Frances Rachel<br />
Robert and Patricia Ralph<br />
Brian J. Ratner<br />
Doris E. Reed<br />
Kenneth Reiner<br />
Jennie Rhine and Tom Meyer<br />
Jim Roberts and Patricia Calberson<br />
Wayne Roberts<br />
John and Fredelle Robinson<br />
William L. and Sandra L. Rosenfeld<br />
Joseph L. Ruby<br />
Gladys Rustay<br />
Jack Sawyer<br />
Daniel P. Scharlin<br />
Julie Schecter<br />
Robert E. Schoen and Nancy Bernstein<br />
William and Katherine Schrenk<br />
Edwin and Joan Brodsky Schur<br />
Susan Scott<br />
William Seaman<br />
Steve Seltzer<br />
Elizabeth and Stephen Shafer<br />
Peter and Elizabeth Shepherd<br />
Albert D. Shuldiner and Emily B. Myers<br />
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher,<br />
& Flom LLP<br />
Emily Spieler and Gregory Wagner<br />
Kent Spriggs<br />
Barbara Starfield and Neil A. Holtzman<br />
Nancy Stearns<br />
Mildred B. Stout<br />
Clayton A. Struve<br />
Susan Susman<br />
Alan Sussman<br />
Clio Tarazi<br />
Richard Teitelbaum<br />
Hugh R. Tobin<br />
Melvin and Marjorie Traylor<br />
James S. Tyre<br />
Robert Vitarelli<br />
Terry L. Wade<br />
Barbara Webster<br />
Daniel Weiss and Anne Stewart<br />
Muriel M. Weissman<br />
Stanley S. Weithorn<br />
Richard Weitz<br />
The Wheelchair Project<br />
Sabin and Martha Willet<br />
The Winky Foundation<br />
Sherri Wolf<br />
Darryl M. Wood and Helene T. Wollin<br />
Deandrea Woods<br />
Workable Alternatives Foundation<br />
Michael D. Yokell<br />
Patrick Young and Junko M. Kunitake<br />
Susan Zawel<br />
$500 – $999<br />
Anonymous<br />
A & J Saks Foundation, Inc.<br />
Leslie Abbey<br />
Stephen and Virginia Abrams<br />
Ethel G. Ackley<br />
Alice K. Ada<br />
Victor Aguiler<br />
Arun Alagappan<br />
Cathy Albisa<br />
Ethan D. and Sandra D. Alyea<br />
Thomas E. and Donna Ambrogi<br />
Grace B. Anderson<br />
Stuart H. Anderson<br />
Bert and Barbara Aubrey<br />
Shane Baggs<br />
Baker & McKenzie LLP<br />
Baltimore Community Foundation<br />
James M. Bergin and Ellen Lukens<br />
Andrew J. and Nancy C. Scerbo<br />
Berlinger<br />
Peggy Billings<br />
Craig D. Blackmon and Tiffany<br />
McDermott<br />
Robert Boehm †<br />
George and Eleanor Bollag<br />
Beth Marie Bonora and Michael Laine<br />
Kevi P. Brannelly<br />
Martin D. Branning<br />
Belinda B. Breese<br />
Evelyn J. Bromet<br />
Richard J. Brown<br />
John Callas<br />
Tim Caro<br />
† These gifts were made by donors who passed away this year<br />
or made a bequest to <strong>CCR</strong> which was received this year..
Miriam Pollet: A long-time financial supporter of <strong>CCR</strong>, Miriam Pollet became an integral part<br />
of <strong>CCR</strong>’s work this year when she starting volunteering 15 hours each week to help fill requests from<br />
incarcerated individuals <strong>for</strong> legal support and copies of <strong>CCR</strong>’s Jailhouse Lawyer’s Handbook: How to<br />
Bring a Federal Lawsuit to Challenge Violations of Your <strong>Rights</strong> in Prison. A retired librarian, Miriam has<br />
brought her sharp eye <strong>for</strong> detail and patience to the project, allowing <strong>CCR</strong> to more fully respond to<br />
the hundreds of letters received each month from those incarcerated individuals around the country—<br />
whose rights are violated on a daily basis.<br />
“I myself have profited from volunteering at <strong>CCR</strong> and have the<br />
satisfaction of helping, in whatever small way, those who are<br />
desperately crying out <strong>for</strong> help.”<br />
Ira Carp<br />
CAUSE<br />
Hope Cobb<br />
Asho I. Craine<br />
Carlyle and Grace Crecelius<br />
Mohammed and Marcia F. Daoudi<br />
Dayton Foundation Depository<br />
Peter De Rege and Alison Hyslop<br />
Lindsay Dearborn<br />
Arthur W. Douville, Jr.<br />
Lewis and Edith Drabkin<br />
Alan and Susan S. Dranitzke<br />
Kingston and Liz Schwerer Duffie<br />
Carol J. Eagle<br />
Norman C. Eddy and<br />
Rebecca Feuerstein<br />
Susan L. Einbinder<br />
Steven and Deborah Elkinton<br />
Simon J. Klein and Lenore Feigenbaum<br />
Ed and Ann A. Ferguson<br />
Joan M. Ferrante<br />
Gregory Finger and Joan Hollister<br />
Jon Finkel<br />
Paul D. Fogel and Ventura Y. Chalom<br />
Donald K. Larkin and Maria C. Freeman<br />
Joshua Frost<br />
Ronald E. Garrett<br />
General Board of Global Ministries<br />
Maxine S. Goad<br />
Waleed K. and Hannah Gosaynie<br />
Claire Gottfried<br />
Margaret M. and Patrick P. Grace<br />
The Gravestar Foundation<br />
Daniel Greenberg and Karen Nelson<br />
Allen and Nancy Greenleaf<br />
Simon Greer and Sharna G. Goldseker<br />
Dwight Hahn<br />
Guy M. Harris<br />
Rachel J. Harris<br />
Julester S. Haste<br />
Marjorie Heins<br />
Peter N. Heller<br />
Robert and Claire Heron<br />
Joseph Herron and Patricia Baird<br />
Charles Hey-Maestre<br />
Martin and Mildred Hird<br />
Honeybee Foundation<br />
Richard R. Howe<br />
Caedmon Irias<br />
Harold M. Isbell<br />
Per R. Jacobson and Elizabeth L. Wilson<br />
Omar C. Jadwat<br />
Roberta Jaffe<br />
Klaus W. Jentschura<br />
Jewish Community Endowment Fund<br />
Marc E. Johnson<br />
Lisa Johnston<br />
Jessica Jones<br />
Henry S. Kahn and Mary Gillmor-Kahn<br />
James M. and Andrea M. Kane<br />
Steven Kanig<br />
Martin and Carolyn Karcher<br />
Patrice Kaska<br />
Barbara and John Kennedy<br />
Charles and Anna Kerstein<br />
Nobal E. and Martha E. King<br />
Donald and Margaret Kioseff<br />
David Klem<br />
Robert L. Kort<br />
Philip Kramer<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> Spotlight<br />
Fred P. and Beverly P. Krasner<br />
Fayette F. Krause<br />
Neal and Karin Kunstler Goldman<br />
Greg Kuykendall<br />
Barb Lee<br />
Tom Lehrer<br />
Phillip and Elsa Lichtenberg<br />
Richard and Rita Lipsitz<br />
Robin Lloyd<br />
George F. Loewenstein and<br />
Donna Harsch<br />
Sivia W. Loria<br />
M. Brinton Lykes and Catherine M.<br />
Mooney<br />
Shirley Magidson<br />
Maine Community Foundation<br />
Mamlouk Trading Corp.<br />
Elena S. Manitzas<br />
Robert C. Mashman<br />
Warren and Joyce Mathews<br />
Alice McGrath<br />
Barbara J. Meislin<br />
Michael and Heli Meltsner<br />
Clotilde P. de Ramos Mimoso and<br />
Maricarmen Ramos de Szendrey<br />
Albert Mishan<br />
Katherine Navarrete<br />
Gloria Newman<br />
Sala Nolan<br />
John Crow and Wendy R. Olesker<br />
Lisa Oppenheim and<br />
Steven K. Rothschild<br />
Eric Orlin<br />
Martin Orner<br />
Isabelle C. Osborne<br />
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<strong>CCR</strong> Donors<br />
Stuart Ozer and Sumi Hoshiko<br />
Caroline M. B. Paul<br />
Alexandra Paul<br />
Per<strong>for</strong>ce Foundation<br />
Gloria C. Phares and Richard Dannay<br />
Stephen C. and Sharon I. Plumeri<br />
Suzanne Polen<br />
Nancy R. Posel<br />
Marshall and Rosie Potamkin<br />
The Presbyterian Foundation<br />
Roger Pugh<br />
Shankar Ramamoorthy<br />
Tina L. Rasnow<br />
Charles and Ilana Horowitz-Ratner<br />
James and Susan Ratner<br />
Julie B. Rauch<br />
Shaheen Rehman and Janice C. Rehman<br />
The Richard R. Howe Foundation<br />
Justine Roberts<br />
John H. Rodgers<br />
Jill and Ronald Rohde<br />
Barbara and Oren Root<br />
Eve S. Rosahn and Marion Banzhaf<br />
Lynn Rosen<br />
Rolf and Elizabeth Rosenthal<br />
Sybil Sage<br />
Naomi Sager<br />
Arnold S. Saks<br />
Brian Sandlin<br />
Alan Schiffmann<br />
Leon F. Seltzer<br />
Evan D. and Janet Shaad<br />
Beth Shamrock<br />
Alix K. Shulman and Scott York<br />
Aaron M. Shure<br />
Dorothy Slater-Brown<br />
Daniel Sleator<br />
Michelle D. Smith<br />
James M. Sober<br />
Rebecca Solnit<br />
John Spragens, Jr.<br />
Norton and Irene Starr<br />
The Stonbely Family Foundation<br />
Alice Sturm Sutter<br />
Lucy Suchman<br />
Ronald J. Tabak<br />
Murray Tobak<br />
Jean Toche<br />
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Charles F. Turner<br />
Richard and Gail Ullman<br />
Victor and Barbara Ulmer<br />
University of Redlands<br />
Marc and Jodie LeWitter Van der Hout<br />
Steven Vogel and Jane Henderson<br />
Colton P. Wagner<br />
Julia and James Wallace<br />
Daniel F. Wallowitz<br />
Barry J. and Abby Wark<br />
Cecille Wasserman<br />
Michael S. and Susan F. Weiner<br />
Alan Weiner and Nancy Maizels<br />
Dolores Welty<br />
Jeffrey and Lucinda Wilner<br />
Anne C. Wilson<br />
Judith Wilson and Alec Wysoker<br />
Barbara J. Winne<br />
Ernest and Roswitha Winsor<br />
James K. Wol<strong>for</strong>d, Jr.<br />
Robert and Blaikie Worth<br />
Frank O. Wyse<br />
Ann Yasuhara<br />
Mitchell H. and Jane Zimmerman<br />
$250 – $499<br />
Anonymous<br />
120 W. 70th Owners Corp.<br />
Milton Abelson<br />
Robert and Miriam Abramovitz<br />
Merritt and Barbara Abrash<br />
The ADCO Foundation<br />
Michelle and Bernard Aisenberg<br />
Salah and Catherine Al-Askari<br />
Jane Alexander<br />
Nicholas Allen and<br />
Stacie Hammersberg<br />
Teresa Amott<br />
Mark L. Amsterdam<br />
Ruth Andrews<br />
The Ankner Family Charitable<br />
Foundation<br />
Barbra Apfelbaum and Michael Reuveni<br />
Barbara Armento<br />
George S. and Jill S. Avrunin<br />
Rebecca Bakunin<br />
John Barth<br />
Myron Beldock and Karen Dippold<br />
Mary Belenky<br />
Douglas J. Bender and Emma B. Trejo<br />
Ruth G. and Carl S. Benson<br />
William Bernell<br />
Murray and Elena J. Berrie<br />
Bethesda Friends Meeting:<br />
Religious Society of Friends<br />
Bani Bhattacharya<br />
Helga K. Bilik<br />
Constance and David C. Borde<br />
Eric Boucher<br />
Robert J. Boyle<br />
Jacqueline Boynton<br />
Lila Braine<br />
Brad and Liana Brooks-Rubin<br />
Robert E. L. and Sylvie M. Brown<br />
Carole R. Brown<br />
Alison Buck<br />
Pearl Buckland<br />
Stefan Budac<br />
Terry Bunker<br />
James A. Burger and Jennifer L. Klein<br />
Renee Cafiero<br />
Wes Callender<br />
Calvert Social Investment Foundation<br />
Ken and Peg Champney<br />
Ellen P. Chapnick and Bill Schleicher<br />
Ava Cheloff<br />
Renee D. Chotiner and<br />
Stuart W. Gardner<br />
Douglas and Ann Christensen<br />
Church Of The Epiphany<br />
Johnson H. Clark<br />
Wallace B. Cleland<br />
Myron and Nancy Cohn<br />
Avern Cohn<br />
Virginia and Douglas Cole<br />
The Community Church of New York<br />
Unitarian Universalist<br />
Community Service Society<br />
of New York<br />
Farok J. Contractor<br />
Mary Ellen Copeland and<br />
Edward Anthes<br />
Jason M. Cox<br />
Barbara Cuneo and Alan Kesselhaut<br />
John and Diane Dalsimer<br />
Ron D. Daniels
Ivey Walton: A member of Prison Families Community Forum, Ivey first came to <strong>CCR</strong> several<br />
years ago when she attended one of the first organizing meetings <strong>for</strong> <strong>CCR</strong>’s New York Campaign <strong>for</strong><br />
Telephone Justice. Living on a fixed income, Ivey has been unable to speak with her incarcerated son<br />
on a regular basis <strong>for</strong> twelve years. Ivey eventually became the named plaintiff in <strong>CCR</strong>’s class action<br />
lawsuit challenging these egregious overcharges, Walton v. NYSDOCS and MCI. Since the filing of the<br />
lawsuit in 2004 and the launch of the New York Campaign <strong>for</strong> Telephone Justice, Ivey has been an<br />
integral part of <strong>CCR</strong> and a tireless advocate <strong>for</strong> her son and <strong>for</strong> other family members who face high<br />
phone bills and the unenviable choice of choosing between financial debt and speaking with their<br />
loved one—all as a result of the prison telephone contract. This year, Ivey traveled to the New York<br />
Supreme Court and New York Court of Appeals to see <strong>CCR</strong> Staff Attorney Rachel Meeropol make oral<br />
arguments on her behalf.<br />
“<strong>CCR</strong> has been very supportive of me in my struggle against MCI. In fact,<br />
they are like family to me.”<br />
Jeffrey J. Davis<br />
Sidney and Selma Davis<br />
Donald A. and Mary Jane Dean<br />
Will Denham<br />
Bindu Desai<br />
Stuart Desser<br />
Matt M. Diaz<br />
J. K. Donnelly and Catherine M. Bishop<br />
Larry D. Doores and Janet R. Wolfe<br />
Sean C. Doyle<br />
Anne Draper<br />
Barry and Ismartilah Drummond<br />
Ronald and Ellen Duncan<br />
Gary Dunn<br />
H. Stewart Dunn, Jr.<br />
David B. Dunning<br />
Aris N. Economides<br />
Camille Ehrenberg<br />
Michael Ehrlich<br />
Michael Tanzer and Hester Eisenstein<br />
Laurel Eisner and Eugene Eisner<br />
Fanita English<br />
Warren H. Esanu<br />
Samuel Eskenazi<br />
Traci L. Ext<br />
Samer A. and Lisa D. Bevilacqua Faraj<br />
Diane Farsetta<br />
A. B. Fields<br />
Belden Fields<br />
Dolly Filartiga and Diego Calles<br />
Erica G. Foldy<br />
Connie Foote and David Mitchell<br />
Nancy E. Frank<br />
Judith and Louis Friedman<br />
David F. Funkhouser<br />
Cynthia Gallagher and Shaun Manchand<br />
Maggie A. Geddes<br />
Edward I. Geffner<br />
Sheila Geist<br />
Martin Gellert<br />
Margo R. George and Catherine Karrass<br />
Patricia A. German<br />
Arleen Glenn<br />
Kayla E. Gluck<br />
Jeffrey Gold<br />
Harriet S. Goldberg and<br />
Gregory C. Johnson<br />
Robert and Irene Goldman<br />
Jean R. Goldman<br />
James E. Gonzales, II<br />
Emily J. Goodman<br />
Suzanne E. Goodman<br />
Edmund W. and Susan G. Gordon<br />
Marcelle Greenfield<br />
Leonard L. Grossman<br />
Kathy Gruber and Fred Levy<br />
Karen W. Guzak<br />
Hans C. and Linda Haacke<br />
Kathleen Hager and<br />
Arthur A. Wasserman<br />
David Harbater<br />
Sheldon and Margery Harnick<br />
Wat Stearns J. Harris<br />
Jed Hartman<br />
Paul Hathaway and Lynda Dailey<br />
Joseph J. Heath<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> Spotlight<br />
Dick S. Heiser<br />
Russell K. Henly and Martha L. Turner<br />
Edward and Mary Herman<br />
Betty and Jackson Herring<br />
Steven C. Hill and Jonathan Herz<br />
Hans Himelein<br />
Zach and Sadie Honey Hochstadt<br />
Robert and Charlene Hornick<br />
Allen M. Howard<br />
Stephen J. Hrinya<br />
Raymond A. Hrycko<br />
Jason Husgen<br />
J. Leon Israel, Jr.<br />
Jewish Fund <strong>for</strong> Justice<br />
Norman I. Johnson<br />
Warren Jones and Marian Gee<br />
Jeffrey A. Jones<br />
Lee Joseph<br />
Mark S. Kamlet and Charlee M. Kamlet<br />
Jay M. Kappraff<br />
Aslam Karachiwala<br />
Caryn B. Kauffman<br />
Mark Kempson<br />
Judy K. Kern<br />
Alka Khushalani<br />
Hilda Knobloch<br />
Max and Joyce Kozloff<br />
George and Carla S. Krupanski<br />
Robert E. and Francoise Kulp<br />
Robert P. Kunreuther<br />
Steve P. LaBash<br />
Matthew D. LaHaye<br />
John W. and Claudia Lamperti<br />
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Sidney Landau<br />
Chuck Lapine and Rae Lapine<br />
Meredith Le Goff<br />
Linda Lee and Charles Lamb<br />
John and Sue Leonard<br />
Daniel K. K. Leong<br />
Judy Lessing<br />
Ida J. Lewenstein<br />
David R. Lewis<br />
Emily M. Lindell<br />
John R. Long<br />
Mary W. Lunt<br />
Lisa Magarrell<br />
Jerome H. Manheim<br />
Richard E. Manning, Jr.<br />
James A. Margolis<br />
William and Judith Matchett<br />
Marc and Barbara Mauer<br />
Peter J. Mayer<br />
Jennifer Meeropol<br />
Martin and Margaret Melkonian<br />
Pamela M. Merchant and<br />
Kirby Sack<br />
Messing, Rudavsky & Weliky<br />
Michael Messinger<br />
Edee and Jack Mezirow<br />
Sara Miles<br />
Marvin and Marline Miller<br />
Rod Miller-Boyer<br />
Millsaps College<br />
Mae K. Millstone<br />
Elliot G. Mishler and Victoria A. Steinitz<br />
Janice L. Mitchell<br />
Jerilyn Montgomery<br />
Stephen Morris<br />
Ann M. and Donald M. Morrison<br />
Thomas V. Muller<br />
Georgiana E. Foster and<br />
Robert C. Murphy<br />
Mariel Nanasi and Jeffrey H. Haas<br />
Reece E. Newman<br />
NY Charities.Org<br />
Kevin L. Oberdorfer<br />
Craig Oettinger<br />
Olaf S. and Sondra S. Olsen<br />
Gail Pakalns<br />
David Perk<br />
Dorothy Z. Peters<br />
Charlotte Phillips and Oliver Fein<br />
Sandra Polishuk<br />
John G. and Barbara Polk<br />
Stephen Pomerance<br />
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<strong>CCR</strong> Donors<br />
Isabel R. Potter<br />
Alan Rabinowitz<br />
Margaret J. Randall and Barbara Byers<br />
Marcus Rediker and Wendy Z. Goldman<br />
Jeffrey C. and Bettiann Reese<br />
The RMF Foundation<br />
Roberta Roban<br />
Steven D. Robinson<br />
R. A. Rock<br />
George S. Rothbart and Ingrid<br />
Scheib-Rothbart<br />
Richard and Melissa Salten Rothman<br />
Mary C. Rower<br />
Howard D. Sacks<br />
The Saint Paul Foundation<br />
Robert Schaibly and Steven Sorla<br />
Gordon Schiff and Marge Cohen<br />
Deborah Schifter and<br />
Alan Schiffmann<br />
Steven A. and Janet H. Schneider<br />
Ruth and Charles Schultz<br />
Keith Schwab<br />
Robert Schwab<br />
Karen Shatzkin and Michael E. Breecher<br />
Anthony Shih<br />
Donald A. Shipley<br />
Ann and Ahmad Shirazi<br />
Victor W. Sidel and Ruth Sidel<br />
Franklin Siegel<br />
Andrea Simon<br />
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP<br />
Beth J. Singer<br />
Carl and Jane Smith<br />
Stephen S. Smith<br />
Lindsay R. Smith<br />
Russell Smith<br />
Carol Smith and Joe Esposito<br />
Carolyn Sonfield<br />
Anthony Spillane<br />
Erwin and Pearl Staller<br />
Peter D. Stansky<br />
Ben Stavis and Marjatta Lyyra<br />
David Steichen<br />
Elliot G. Mishler and Victoria A. Steinitz<br />
Ian E. Stockdale<br />
Andrew M. Stone<br />
Elizabeth Strout<br />
Gita Sud and Rob Aitken<br />
Richard P. Sutter<br />
Devon K. Svarda<br />
Rosalie Swedlin<br />
Harold Taggart<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> Donors<br />
David Tanzer<br />
Thomson West<br />
Joseph and Cornelia Tierney<br />
Kenneth E. Tilsen<br />
Randall H. Trigg and Caitlin Stanton<br />
Barbara and Franklin Turner<br />
David B. Turner<br />
Tamara Saimons and<br />
Kathryn Turnipseed<br />
Robert Twombly<br />
Scott L. Tyler and Marilyn Imura<br />
Stephen F. Vause and Carlyn Syvanen<br />
The Vermont Community Foundation<br />
Susan von Arx<br />
Carolyn Walker<br />
Francis M. Walters<br />
Jennifer Warburg<br />
Joan M. Warburg<br />
Bernhard Weimer<br />
Edmund and Mary Weingart<br />
Adam N. Weinstein<br />
Henry Werner and Holly Thau<br />
Sue and Philip Wheaton<br />
Brian White<br />
Richard Wiebe<br />
Sarah S. Willie<br />
Barbara Winslow<br />
Stephen and Bettina Winter<br />
Lincoln and Wilma<br />
Wolfenstein<br />
Neville Woodruff<br />
Richard K. Worthington<br />
Eitan K. Yanich<br />
Harry S. Hochheiser and<br />
Judith Yanowitz<br />
Steven J. Yellin<br />
Sandra A. Zagarell<br />
Thomas Zaslavsky<br />
George and Sondra Zeidenstein<br />
Robert J. Zelnick<br />
Over $100 – $249<br />
Anonymous<br />
Emily Achtenberg<br />
Emory and Marilyn Ackley<br />
The Agape Foundation<br />
Harold Ahrens<br />
Greg J. Albertson and<br />
Melissa Frumin<br />
Jess L. Al<strong>for</strong>d<br />
Paul J. Allen<br />
Deborah Allen
Sadat Sayeed: “Long be<strong>for</strong>e the documented abuses at Guantánamo began to sway American<br />
opinion, many Europeans were looking on in displeasure,” says Sadat Sayeed, a visiting attorney<br />
at <strong>CCR</strong> in 2006. Sadat received Britain’s prestigious Pegasus Fellowship to work at <strong>CCR</strong> <strong>for</strong> three<br />
months. Shockingly, he was detained at the airport <strong>for</strong> several hours by the Department of Homeland<br />
Security be<strong>for</strong>e he was grudgingly released. After he arrived at our offices, he was involved in drafting<br />
the <strong>Center</strong>’s submissions to the United Nations’ Committee Against Torture and Human <strong>Rights</strong><br />
Committee on the USA’s compliance with international conventions. Sadat is a barrister at Garden<br />
Court Chambers in London, one of the leading human rights barrister’s chambers in the U.K.<br />
He remains involved in ef<strong>for</strong>ts to close Guantánamo.<br />
Carol Allen<br />
William C. Altham<br />
Norman Altstedter<br />
The American Baptist Churches<br />
of Massachusetts<br />
Stephen C. and Betty A. Anderson<br />
Andrew M. Ansorge and<br />
Laura S. Koopman<br />
R. S. Anthony<br />
Sona Aronian<br />
Bob Bamman<br />
Michael H. Bancroft and<br />
Victoria A. Curry<br />
Rainer C. Baum<br />
Will Beatty<br />
Michael Beer<br />
Marvin L. Bellin<br />
Howard A. and Estelle Bern<br />
Arthur and Anne Berndt<br />
Stephanie G. and Jacob G. Birnberg<br />
Robert L. Black, Jr.<br />
Alison Blackduck<br />
Carol Bloom<br />
Joan and Jack Botwinick<br />
Robert and Jeanne R. Boynton<br />
John A. and Geraldine M. Brittain<br />
Jeanne Bronstein<br />
Gregory P. Brown<br />
Thomas W. Browne<br />
Dorelen F. and Emily Bunting<br />
Arthur and Alice Burks<br />
Harry A. Caddow, Jr.<br />
Desmond Callan and<br />
Georgene A. Gardner<br />
Blair and Josephine Campbell<br />
Penelope J. Campbell<br />
Roseann and Robert A. Campbell<br />
Michael Cavanaugh<br />
Hilary Caws-Elwitt<br />
Mortimer H. Chambers, Jr.<br />
Gordon A. Chapman<br />
Judith Chomsky<br />
Nina W. Chong<br />
James and Roshan Christensen<br />
Damon A. Clark<br />
Serena Clayton<br />
Marilyn B. Clement<br />
Court Cline<br />
John E. and Penelope D. Clute<br />
Joanne M. Collier<br />
Matthew T. Colvard<br />
Janet M. Conn<br />
Juliette R. and Micaela S. Corazon<br />
Wiliam C. Cromwick<br />
Joanne and Eli Curi<br />
Claire S. Davidson<br />
Richard A. Denison<br />
Robert and Susan Deutsch<br />
Gerald Dickinson<br />
Jane E. Donaldson<br />
Shelby Drescher<br />
Barbara L. Dudley<br />
Lloyd Duren<br />
Charles and Lois B. Edwards<br />
Colin Eisler<br />
Brad P. Engdahl and Patricia L. Layton<br />
Margie R. Eucalyptus and<br />
M. A. McFadden<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> Spotlight<br />
“My time at <strong>CCR</strong> was an un<strong>for</strong>gettable experience, and I<br />
continue to draw great inspiration and strength from the work<br />
of my colleagues there. In the context of the post 9/11 world in which we live,<br />
<strong>CCR</strong>’s ongoing presence as a champion of fundamental human rights is essential.”<br />
Hossam E. and S. H. Fadel<br />
Jeffrey A. Fagan and<br />
Connie S. Fishman<br />
Harriet A. Feinberg<br />
Solomon Fisher<br />
Stuart M. Flashman<br />
Anne E. Flynn<br />
Steve Frankel<br />
Jane and Howard Franklin<br />
Barbara Friedberg<br />
Florence Friedman<br />
Tom Friend<br />
Derek T. Frost<br />
Michiko Fukuda<br />
Sheryl P. Gardner<br />
David G. and Elisabeth Gelzer<br />
Albert Giang<br />
John Gibson<br />
Ayesha E. Gill<br />
Nancy Gilliam<br />
Mimi Gilpin<br />
Ellen R. Goldman<br />
Fred and Naomi Goldstein<br />
Richard A. and Jill Gollub<br />
George M. Goodburn<br />
Robert E. Goodrich<br />
Debbie Gordon<br />
Bernard H. Gordon<br />
Michael Gorman<br />
Margaret R. Gottlieb<br />
Spencer B. Graves and<br />
Betsy Wolf-Graves<br />
Corwin Greenberg and<br />
Parvati Grais<br />
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<strong>CCR</strong> Donors<br />
Lee Greer<br />
William and Sharon Gross<br />
Ruthe and Arnold Grubin<br />
Albert and Virginia Hale<br />
H. K. Hall, Jr.<br />
Michael A. Hardy<br />
Leora T. Harris<br />
Keith Hefner and Diana Autin<br />
Horace Heitman<br />
Louis R. Hellwig<br />
Christopher L. Henley<br />
David G. Hermann<br />
Michael and M. E. Herwood<br />
John and Rachel Heuman<br />
Lisa M. Hinely<br />
David K. and Judith A.<br />
Hoffman<br />
Carole R. Horowitz and<br />
Richard L. Last<br />
Katherine Houlihan<br />
Kevin M. Hunt and<br />
Margaret Downing<br />
Kristine A. Huskey<br />
Stanley T. Hutter<br />
Joel and Helen Isaacson<br />
William and Harriet Isecke<br />
Maria L. Jacquard<br />
Roman Jamieson<br />
Marie I. Jordon and<br />
Joseph P. Lyons<br />
Ruth G. Kahn<br />
Alfred E. and Mary S. Kahn<br />
Will Kail<br />
Herschel and Margrit Kaminsky<br />
Anne Kastor<br />
Joanna B. Katz<br />
Margaret Kelly<br />
Peter and Donna Kirchheimer<br />
Bernard C. and<br />
Tilman L. Kirchhoff<br />
Sarah Roberts and<br />
Lawrence Koplik<br />
Diane Palladino and Ellen Koteen<br />
Kanan Krishnan<br />
Jane Kristof<br />
Cathryn H. Kurtagh<br />
Katherine and Margareta<br />
La Rocco<br />
Betty B. Lanham<br />
Phyllis Lanham<br />
David J. Lansner<br />
Ernest T. Larson<br />
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Annette Leckart<br />
Barbara D. Leckie<br />
Susan L. Lee<br />
Edward A. and Mary Lefrak<br />
Martin and Gita Lefstein<br />
William J. and Ellen S. Leibold<br />
Albert and Lulu Levy<br />
Rosalind Lichter<br />
Evelyn C. Lundstrom<br />
Susan Luraschi<br />
Sophie P. Lutzker<br />
Lorraine Lyman<br />
John R. MacArthur and<br />
Renee Khatami<br />
Joan and Wally MacDonald<br />
A. Kent and Kathleen MacDougall<br />
Jeanette and Daniel Macero<br />
Wendy Macklin<br />
Deepak Malhotra<br />
Margaret A. Malloy<br />
Susan B. Manning<br />
Stephen E. Marston<br />
Clara and Bernard Maslow<br />
Anna Marie Mattson<br />
Alan Maximuk<br />
Delbert McCombs<br />
Gary E. McDole<br />
William F. and Nancy McLoughlin<br />
Lynn McWhood<br />
Joseph R. Miller<br />
Bruce and Jane O. Miller<br />
Andrew C. and Helen S. Mills<br />
Arthur R. and Lynn Mink<br />
Thomas C. Mitchell<br />
David B. Mitchell<br />
Lisa A. Mitchell<br />
Charles Moore<br />
Cornelius G. Moore<br />
Madelyn F. Morales<br />
Gilbert E. Morris<br />
Joseph Morton<br />
Denis Mosgofian and<br />
Lori Liederman<br />
Peter and Gail Mott<br />
Kathryn L. Mulvey<br />
Dan M. Myers<br />
John S. Nichols<br />
William K. Nisbet<br />
Jay M. and Marie B. Novello<br />
Robert and Frances Nye<br />
Joyce K. OQuinn and<br />
Steven Selby<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> Donors<br />
Helen M. Ortmann<br />
Norman Oslik and<br />
Madeleine Golde<br />
Sean L. Patrick<br />
Lowell C. Paul<br />
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton<br />
& Garrison LLP<br />
Robert and Ruth Peck<br />
Creighton Peet<br />
Robert J. and Suzanne D. Petrucci<br />
Ed and Pauline Petry<br />
Lynette B. Phillips<br />
Anthony and Lizbeth H. Piel<br />
Howardena D. Pindell<br />
Charles R. Piper, Jr.<br />
Barbara B. Polk<br />
Evelyn G. Polk<br />
John A. Pollack<br />
James Porter, Jr.<br />
Joan Posner<br />
Cathy J. Potter<br />
Brian Pridham<br />
Bennett M. Pudlin and<br />
Margaret A. Judd<br />
Robert J. Quartell<br />
Susan G. Radner<br />
M. Carmen Ramirez<br />
Deborah Rand<br />
Paul F. Randel<br />
Joanna M. Rankin and<br />
Mary Fillmore<br />
Andrew S. Rasmussen<br />
Kenneth C. Regal and<br />
Judith A. Ruszkowski<br />
Robert A. and Mary J. Resnik<br />
Marsha L. Respess<br />
Valerie L. Reuther and<br />
Linda D. Bartlett<br />
Julie Rivchin<br />
Anne E. Rodman<br />
Harriet Rosenfeld<br />
Anton B. Rosenthal<br />
Frank Rosin<br />
Karen Rothman<br />
Dwight N. and Robin Rousu<br />
Marcie A. Rubel<br />
Dean Graham Ruby<br />
Jane P. Rundell<br />
Laura and John Saade<br />
Bert Sacks<br />
Nancy and Stefan Sage<br />
Louis R. Salazar
Cathy Albisa spent her childhood in Miami during the 1970s, where a cadre of young<br />
idealistic teachers in the public school system provided a reprieve from her conservative neighborhood.<br />
In this city of racial and ethnic de facto segregation, and growing economic inequality, she<br />
watched images of race riots twenty minutes from her home, on-going abuse of Haitian refugees and<br />
other serious human rights violations. These experiences inspired her to make a career of fighting <strong>for</strong><br />
social justice. Through one of her most important mentors, fellow <strong>CCR</strong> Board member Rhonda Copelon,<br />
Cathy first became involved with the <strong>Center</strong>, in the mid-1990s, as co-counsel on one of the <strong>Center</strong>’s<br />
many Alien Tort Claims Act cases.<br />
In 2004, Cathy co-founded the National Economic and Social <strong>Rights</strong> Initiative, an organization that<br />
works with the social justice community to effectively use human rights standards in U.S. advocacy<br />
ef<strong>for</strong>ts, and joined the Board of <strong>CCR</strong> in 2006.<br />
Joseph Salerno<br />
Sigrid Salo<br />
Franz and Phoebe J. Samelson<br />
Marc Sapir<br />
Irving Saraf<br />
Charles J. Scardino and<br />
Mary Lynn K. Corwin<br />
Martin Schoenhals<br />
Manuel and Bonnie Schonhorn<br />
Jeffrey Scuba<br />
Rupa Shah<br />
Amy Shipman<br />
Mary and Henry Shoiket<br />
Brenna L. Silberstein<br />
Victor Skorapa, Jr.<br />
William and Ursula Slavick<br />
Marc A. Snyder<br />
Stanley Sorscher and Judith M. Arms<br />
John D. Spence and W. Katherine Yih<br />
Sandra M. Squire Fluck<br />
Robert and Elaine Stein<br />
Henry and Pamela Steiner<br />
John A. Stevenson<br />
Richard and Judith Stillinger<br />
Bert Stover and Teresa Holder<br />
Susan M. Strasser<br />
Christopher Strawn<br />
Bertram and Lynne Y. Strieb<br />
Myles Sussman<br />
Daniel B. Szyld<br />
Ilene Tannenbaum and David Goren<br />
Billy G. Taylor<br />
Anne Teicher and Sy Rutkin<br />
Jonathan Teller-Elsberg<br />
C. G. Thomas and E. J. Cameron<br />
Susan V. Tipograph<br />
Joseph and Minette Tolciss<br />
Howard and Nina Tolley<br />
Betsy Towle Ordl<br />
Michael H. Traison<br />
Elizabeth Tuccillo<br />
Bernard Tuchman<br />
William and Selma Tucker<br />
Connie W. Tyler<br />
Christine A. Vassallo<br />
Reed L. and Jennifer J. Vickerman<br />
Joachim Vosgerau<br />
Mary K. Voss<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> Spotlight<br />
“I’m committed to the <strong>Center</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Constitutional</strong> <strong>Rights</strong> because of its deep progressive<br />
vision and the strong conscious ties to social movements. I’m also drawn to <strong>CCR</strong><br />
because of its creativity and ability to turn even legal losses into movement victories.<br />
I’m particularly proud that together we have created new areas of law.”<br />
John K. Wade<br />
Ruth Warshauer<br />
Janet B. Warzyn<br />
John Weeks<br />
Marvin J. Weinberger<br />
Maurice and Gloria Weisberg<br />
Leland and June Welsh<br />
Lawrence Weschler<br />
David A. White<br />
Wendy W. Williams<br />
James Williamson<br />
Patricia Winer<br />
Karen Winkler<br />
Carol A. Wood<br />
Melvyn Wright<br />
Sarah R. Wunsch<br />
Rachel Wysoker<br />
Lewis Yelin<br />
Marvin J. Yust<br />
Michael A. Zagone<br />
Bart Ziegler<br />
Lore A. Zutraun<br />
This list includes gifts over $100 made between July 1, 2006 and June 30, <strong>2007</strong>. Gifts of $100 and under are greatly appreciated and go a<br />
long way toward enabling <strong>CCR</strong> to continue its work. Un<strong>for</strong>tunately, because of the large number of these gifts space does not allow us to<br />
print an exhaustive list of donors. All gifts are recognized in our on-line version of this report which is at www.ccr-ny.org.<br />
If you made a gift during this period and your name is not on this list, or if there is a problem with your listing, please contact us so we may<br />
correct our files and acknowledge you in our next newsletter. Frequently, stock gifts are not traceable to the donor and we often do not know<br />
whom to acknowledge <strong>for</strong> these gifts. To remedy this situation <strong>for</strong> future gifts, please let us know to expect the stock transfer and we will be<br />
sure to credit it to the correct donor and note it in the donor list.<br />
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<strong>CCR</strong> Speaks Out<br />
In addition to organizing and hosting events, <strong>CCR</strong> is regularly called upon to provide speakers and expertise <strong>for</strong> a range of<br />
events. <strong>CCR</strong> staff participated in numerous international advocacy activities, including meeting with European representatives<br />
in London and Geneva, and presenting arguments on behalf of detainees be<strong>for</strong>e the Inter-American Commission on<br />
Human <strong>Rights</strong>. Some highlights from this year include:<br />
• Andrea Costello: testified at the Tri-Level Joint Legislative<br />
Task Force Representing the New York City Council,<br />
New York State Legislature and the U.S. Congress to<br />
discuss the NYPD’s failure to comply with the settlement<br />
in <strong>CCR</strong>’s landmark Street Crimes Unit case. She presented<br />
recommendations on police accountability in the wake of<br />
the 2006 shootings of Sean Bell, Joseph Guzman and Trent<br />
Benefield in Southeast Queens by undercover New York<br />
City police officers.<br />
• Annette Dickerson: at the National Network <strong>for</strong><br />
Grantmakers conference in Chicago on U.S. practices<br />
of extraordinary rendition and torture.<br />
• Wells Dixon: Oregon Law Institute’s CLE course, “From<br />
Guantánamo to Gresham: Permissible and Impermissible<br />
Representation in High Profile Cases and Everyday Life”<br />
on his representation of Guantánamo detainees.<br />
• Katherine Gallagher: at the Hague Joint Conference<br />
on Contemporary Issues of International Law on judicial<br />
review of U.S. “anti-terror” policies and practices, including<br />
extraordinary rendition, and the extent to which U.S.<br />
courts invoke or reject international.<br />
• Bill Goodman: at the Congressional Black Caucus’<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> Legislative Conference about “The New COIN-<br />
TELPRO;” and at West Virginia State University on “The<br />
People, the Constitution, and the Bush Administration.”<br />
• Jennie Green: on “Confronting Gender-Based Violence in<br />
Iraq” at the release of MADRE’s <strong>2007</strong> report Promising<br />
Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence<br />
in the U.S. War on Iraq.<br />
• Gitanjali Gutierrez: community <strong>for</strong>um and fundraiser <strong>for</strong><br />
the San Francisco 8, who are charged with conspiracy due<br />
to evidence based on statements which resulted from police<br />
torture of Black activists in the 1970s; at a national teachin<br />
at Seton Hall Law School and videocast to over 200<br />
colleges and universities on the subject of “Guantánamo:<br />
How do we respond?”; and at “Whitewashing the Panthers:<br />
Can the Government Prosecute Black History?” connecting<br />
the torture tactics used against the Black Panthers with<br />
those used at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib.<br />
• Shayana Kadidal: testified at the New York City Council,<br />
Committee on Fire and Criminal Justice Services; spoke on<br />
a panel entitled: “Against Terrorism – For Human <strong>Rights</strong>”<br />
at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland;<br />
and on a panel be<strong>for</strong>e UN Special Rapporteur on Human<br />
<strong>Rights</strong> of Migrants at Cooper Union in New York City on<br />
post-9/11 legal standards affecting immigrants.<br />
• Rachel Meeropol: at the International Day of Solidarity<br />
with Green Scare Indictees in support of Daniel McGowan,<br />
who was arrested in 2005 in the FBI’s “Operation Backfire,”<br />
a multi-state sweep targeting alleged Earth Liberation<br />
and Animal Liberation Front activists on charges which<br />
could lead to sentences of life in prison.<br />
• Michael Ratner: American University of Paris about<br />
<strong>CCR</strong>’s work and appeared with Lynne Stewart on the<br />
“Fighting Back Tour” throughout Northern Cali<strong>for</strong>nia<br />
covering <strong>CCR</strong>’s work fighting the use of torture in<br />
Guantánamo and the “war on terror”.<br />
• Michael Ratner and Gitanjali Gutierrez: press conference<br />
and rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington,<br />
DC, marking the fifth anniversary of the first twenty<br />
prisoners being sent to Guantánamo Bay.<br />
• Claire Tixeire: <strong>2007</strong> Arizona State Bar conference on<br />
<strong>CCR</strong>’s petition to the German Prosecutor regarding the<br />
culpability of U.S. officials in Abu Ghraib torture.<br />
• Vincent Warren, Michael Ratner, Maria LaHood,<br />
Gitanjali Gutierrez and Annette Dickerson: appeared<br />
with other leading attorneys and experts in New York City<br />
to discuss detention and the so-called “war on terror” at<br />
“From Pinochet to Rumsfeld,” an event hosted by <strong>CCR</strong> and<br />
focusing on <strong>CCR</strong>’s work in holding U.S. officials accountable<br />
<strong>for</strong> torture.<br />
• Vincent Warren: traveled to D.C. as part of a national day<br />
of political action by the legal community dedicated to<br />
the restoration of habeas corpus, which included dozens<br />
of visits to congressional offices as well as Internet-based<br />
campaigns, campus-based activities, and educational<br />
events.
Board of Directors and Staff July 1 2006 – June 30 <strong>2007</strong><br />
Robert Boehm (through 12/06), Chairperson<br />
Catherine Albisa<br />
Karima Bennoune<br />
Ann Cammett<br />
Marilyn Clement<br />
David Cole<br />
Rhonda Copelon<br />
Michelle DePass<br />
Gregory H. Finger, Treasurer<br />
Charles Hey-Maestre, Secretary<br />
Derrick A. Humphries<br />
Abdeen Jabara<br />
Directors<br />
Vincent Warren, Executive Director<br />
Rosalba Messina, Interim Executive Director (2/06 - 8/06)*<br />
Kevi Brannelly, Development Director<br />
Carolyn Chambers, Associate Executive Director<br />
Annette Warren Dickerson, Director of Education and Outreach<br />
William Goodman, Legal Director (through 4/07)<br />
Legal Department<br />
Jessica Baen, Legal Worker<br />
Andrea Costello, Staff Attorney<br />
Claire Dailey, Legal Worker<br />
J. Wells Dixon, Staff Attorney<br />
Kamau Franklin, Racial Justice Fellow<br />
Katherine Gallagher, Staff Attorney<br />
Jennifer Green, Senior Staff Attorney<br />
Gitanjali Gutierrez, Staff Attorney<br />
Susan Hu, Legal Worker<br />
Shayana Kadidal, Senior Managing Attorney<br />
Marc Krupanski, Legal Worker<br />
Maria LaHood, Senior Staff Attorney<br />
Emi MacLean, Staff Attorney<br />
Rachel Meeropol, Staff Attorney<br />
Barbara Olshansky, Deputy Legal Director (through 12/06)<br />
Ellen Range, Legal Worker*<br />
Nandini Rao, Asst. to Legal Director*<br />
Matthew Strugar, Attorney*<br />
Claire Tixeire, Legal Research Associate<br />
Maureen Tracey-Mooney, Asst. to Legal Director (through 3/07)<br />
Board of Directors<br />
Staff<br />
Wilhelm Joseph, Jr.<br />
Judy Lerner<br />
Eric L. Lewis<br />
Robin Lloyd<br />
Jules Lobel, Vice President<br />
Michael Ratner, President<br />
Alex Rosenberg, Vice President<br />
Franklin Siegel<br />
Michael Smith<br />
Richard A. Soble<br />
Peter Weiss, Vice President<br />
Ellen Yaroshefsky<br />
Education & Outreach Department<br />
Dana Kaplan, OSI Fellow<br />
C. Lynne Kates, Organizer<br />
Lauren Melodia, E&O Associate<br />
Joshua Rahtz, Intern*<br />
Marion Rodriguez, Organizer (through 12/06)<br />
Development Department<br />
Bani Duggal, Intern<br />
Kevin Gay, Database Administrator<br />
Emily Harting, Foundations Relations Officer<br />
Jeremy Rye, Development Associate<br />
Sue Lee Troutman, Major Gifts Officer (through 11/06)<br />
Communications Department<br />
Owen Henkel, Multimedia and Web Communication Manager<br />
Ari Melber, writer (through 8/06)*<br />
Jen Nessel, Communications Coordinator<br />
Sean Sullivan, Communications Associate (through 7/06)<br />
Esther Wang, Communications Assistant<br />
Administrative Staff<br />
Orlando Gudino, Network Administrator<br />
Jose Monzon, Administrative Assistant<br />
Jeffrey Weinrich, Finance Manager<br />
Alberto White, Office Manager<br />
* Temporary Staff<br />
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In Memoriam<br />
Remembering Bob Boehm<br />
Bob Boehm was a sustaining <strong>for</strong>ce <strong>for</strong> <strong>CCR</strong>. He was a sweet and caring man<br />
who was generous to a fault and who helped shape and support <strong>CCR</strong> <strong>for</strong> almost<br />
four decades. Not only did he and his adored wife, Fran, contribute significant<br />
sums to <strong>CCR</strong> but, more than once, but they helped countless other progressive<br />
organizations to get started or to survive in lean times. “A grant from Boehm”<br />
was often an imprimatur <strong>for</strong> others to jump in. Their financial contributions<br />
were matched by the ideas they offered to their grantees, but never as a condition,<br />
never as a way of promoting themselves.<br />
Bob Believed—with a capital B. He believed in progress (how old-fashioned!);<br />
in the power of the word over the sword; in the ultimate triumph of the people<br />
over the establishment. Hence Bob’s many letters to the editor, of which he<br />
was justly proud when they were published. Nowhere was Bob prouder of the<br />
<strong>Center</strong> than in its early work in the South supporting civil rights movements or<br />
when <strong>CCR</strong> decided to take up the cause of those being held in Guantánamo at a<br />
time when they were vilified and abandoned by all others.<br />
Many organizations felt the imprint of their loyalty and their generosity, but none more than <strong>CCR</strong>, whose board Bob chaired <strong>for</strong> many<br />
years and about which Bob was truly passionate. <strong>CCR</strong>’s achievements will <strong>for</strong>ever be linked with his name.<br />
We lost Fran last year and Bob this year. They will be greatly missed. But it is a com<strong>for</strong>t to know they lived the good life, one in which<br />
they believed – not naively, but from unshakable conviction – a life they believed every human being is entitled to and did so much to<br />
make that a reality <strong>for</strong> others.<br />
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The following is a list of <strong>CCR</strong> supporters who either passed away this year or who honored<br />
<strong>CCR</strong> with a bequest. It is always sad to lose a family member, but <strong>for</strong>tunately these people’s<br />
ideals will live on in the work they supported at <strong>CCR</strong>.<br />
Joan Antonucci<br />
Lois Baker<br />
Vita Barsky<br />
Benjamin Berg<br />
Hank Corwin<br />
Geraldine Dimondstein<br />
Frank Durkan<br />
Dorothy Epstein<br />
Ronald Force<br />
Richard Friedman<br />
Del Greenfield<br />
Louis Greenfield<br />
Sonya H. Guidry<br />
George Harrison<br />
Seymour Krauth<br />
Janet Loeb<br />
G. Ross McKee, Jr.<br />
Richardson B. Okie<br />
Robert E. Ross<br />
Robert Schwartz<br />
Bernard Stern<br />
Sol L. Warren<br />
Paula Weiss<br />
Josephine A. Willard<br />
Theodore Williams<br />
Sam Zaslavsky<br />
Howard Zucker
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